CVE-2024-3400: Critical Command Injection Vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Firewalls


On Friday, April 12, Palo Alto Networks published an advisory on CVE-2024-3400, a CVSS 10 zero-day vulnerability in several versions of PAN-OS, the operating system that runs on the company’s firewalls.

According to the vendor advisory, if conditions for exploitability are met, the vulnerability may enable an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the firewall. Patches are available for some versions as of Sunday, April 14, 2024.

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Source: Rapid7


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