CVE-2024-2550Medium

CVE-2024-2550 PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) in GlobalProtect Gateway Using a Specially Crafted Packet

Published
November 13, 2024
Last Modified
January 6, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-2550 →

📋 Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability in the GlobalProtect gateway in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker to stop the GlobalProtect service on the firewall by sending a specially crafted packet that causes a denial of service (DoS) condition. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition result in the firewall entering maintenance mode.

🎯 Affected products3

  • Cloud NGFW
  • PAN-OS
  • Prisma Access

✅ Remediation

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 10.2.11, PAN-OS 11.0.6, PAN-OS 11.1.5, and all later PAN-OS versions. In addition, in an attempt to provide the most seamless upgrade path for our customers, we are making additional fixes available as noted below: * Additional 11.1 fix: * 11.1.4-h9 * Additional 10.2 fixes: * 10.2.10-h10 * 10.2.9-h18 * 10.2.8-h18 * 10.2.7-h21 Workarounds and mitigations: No workaround or mitigation is available.

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