CVE-2024-9471 — PAN-OS: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in XML API
A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the XML API of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated PAN-OS administrator with restricted privileges to use a …
Published: 2024-10-09 · CVSS: 5.1 · CVSS 4.0
A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the XML API of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated PAN-OS administrator with restricted privileges to use a compromised XML API key to perform actions as a higher privileged PAN-OS administrator. For example, an administrator with "Virtual system administrator (read-only)" access could use an XML API key of a "Virtual system administrator" to perform write operations on the virtual system configuration even though they should be limited to read-only operations.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7