CVE-2024-5918Low

CVE-2024-5918 PAN-OS: Improper Certificate Validation Enables Impersonation of a Legitimate GlobalProtect User

Published
November 13, 2024
Last Modified
November 13, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-5918 →

📋 Description

An improper certificate validation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authorized user with a specially crafted client certificate to connect to an impacted GlobalProtect portal or GlobalProtect gateway as a different legitimate user. This attack is possible only if you "Allow Authentication with User Credentials OR Client Certificate."

🎯 Affected products3

  • Cloud NGFW
  • PAN-OS
  • Prisma Access

✅ Remediation

This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 10.1.11, PAN-OS 10.2.4-h5, PAN-OS 10.2.5, PAN-OS 11.0.3, and all later PAN-OS versions. Workarounds and mitigations: You can mitigate this issue by setting the "Allow Authentication with User Credentials OR Client Certificate" option to "No." Additional information is available here: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-web-interface-help/globalprotect/network-globalprotect-portals/globalprotect-portals-authentication-configuration-tab * https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-web-interface-help/globalprotect/network-globalprotect-portals/globalprotect-portals-authentication-configuration-tab * https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-web-interface-help/globalprotect/network-globalprotect-gateways/globalprotect-gateway-authentication-tab https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-web-interface-help/globalprotect/network-globalprotect-gateways/globalprotect-gateway-authentication-tabhttps://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-web-interface-help/globalprotect/network-globalprotect-gateways/globalprotect-gateway-authentication-tab

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