Threats / Palo Alto Networks / CVE-2024-0012
CVE-2024-0012
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Verified 2026-08-04
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS authentication bypass in web management interface allows unauthenticated access to firewall and VPN concentrator administration.
Verdict
Today item, not a backlog item.
Critical authentication bypass affecting PAN-OS management interfaces. High exploitation activity and ransomware deployment observed. Attackers gain direct administrative control without credentials, enabling full system compromise.
CISA KEV Yes · 2024-11-185Ransomware use Flagged5EPSS 0.99698 (verify live)6Exploit Weaponized · public PoC7CVSS 9.33CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Impact: total4
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Fully weaponized — public exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
629 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-11-18), flagged for known ransomware use.
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.99698 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 9.3 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Red) · Affected: Palo Alto Networks, PAN-OS. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 4.0, set at disclosure.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-306 Missing Authentication — weakness family: Authentication.CWE — CNA-assigned (CVE.org); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog the same day the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
Public exploit available
Public exploit tooling is catalogued for this CVE (a functional/weaponized public exploit). Catalog entries: Metasploit module, nuclei template. We link the catalog page(s) only — no payload or code is hosted or restated here.Link, never host — the catalog page is the source; basicsecurity.net does not redistribute payloads.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I bypass authentication on the PAN-OS web management interface without valid credentials.
Business
Administrative access to critical network infrastructure is compromised, enabling unauthorized configuration changes and data exfiltration.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I gain unrestricted access to firewall and VPN concentrator settings and logs.
Business
Network segmentation and access controls are neutralized, allowing lateral movement and persistence across the infrastructure.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I deploy ransomware payloads or establish command-and-control channels through the compromised management interface.
Business
Operations are disrupted by encryption of critical systems; ransom demands and recovery costs accumulate while business continuity is lost.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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