CVE-2024-5916

PAN-OS: Cleartext Exposure of External System Secrets

State: Published
Severity: 6.0 Medium
Published: Aug 14, 2024
Updated: Apr 30, 2025
Reserved: Jun 12, 2024

Description

An information exposure vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables a local system administrator to unintentionally disclose secrets, passwords, and tokens of external systems. A read-only administrator who has access to the config log, can read secrets, passwords, and tokens to external systems.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.0 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-313 Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks	9.1Not affected 10.1Not affected 10.2 to before 10.2.8Affectedfrom 10.2.8Not affectedfrom 10.2.7-h13Not affected 11.0 to before 11.0.4Affectedfrom 11.0.4Not affected 11.1Not affected
Cloud NGFWPalo Alto Networks	Before 8/15Affected On or after 8/15Not affected Before 8/23Affected On or after 8/23Not affected
Prisma AccessPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5916

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