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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.4

CVE-2024-5916 json

PAN-OS: Cleartext Exposure of External System Secrets

published 2024-08-14 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-47048

cvss
4.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 9.1, 10.1, 10.2.7-h13, 10.2.8, 11.0.4, 11.1
  • Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW On or after 8/15, On or after 8/23

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-24-102-04 updated cvss 4.4

Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808

  • Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808
    affected: vendor fix

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.0 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
CNA 4.0 6.0 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber
NVD 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
  • Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW
  • Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-313 Cleartext Storage in a File or on Disk
  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
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References

Sources

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