CVE-2024-5918

PAN-OS: Improper Certificate Validation Enables Impersonation of a Legitimate GlobalProtect User

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Nov 14, 2024
Updated: Nov 14, 2024
Reserved: Jun 12, 2024

Description

An improper certificate validation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authorized user with a specially crafted client certificate to connect to an impacted GlobalProtect portal or GlobalProtect gateway as a different legitimate user. This attack is possible only if you "Allow Authentication with User Credentials OR Client Certificate."

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.3 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/AU:N/R:A/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cloud NGFWPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks	11.2.0Not affected 11.1.0Not affected 11.0.0 to before 11.0.3Affectedfrom 11.0.3Not affected 10.2.0 to before 10.2.4-h5Affectedfrom 10.2.4-h5Not affected 10.1.0 to before 10.1.11Affectedfrom 10.1.11Not affected
Prisma AccessPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5918vendor-advisory

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