CVE-2024-9468High

CVE-2024-9468 PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) via a Maliciously Crafted Packet

Published
October 9, 2024
Last Modified
April 30, 2025

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CVE-2024-9468 →

📋 Description

A memory corruption vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash PAN-OS due to a crafted packet through the data plane, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition will result in PAN-OS entering maintenance mode.

🎯 Affected products3

  • Cloud NGFW
  • PAN-OS
  • Prisma Access

✅ Remediation

This issue is fixed in 10.2.9-h11, 10.2.10-h4, PAN-OS 10.2.11, PAN-OS 11.0.4-h5, PAN-OS 11.0.6, PAN-OS 11.1.3, and all later PAN-OS versions. Workarounds and mitigations: Customers can block attacks for this vulnerability by disabling this setting: Device > Setup Session > Decryption Settings > SSL Decryption Settings > Send handshake messages to CTD for inspection. Customers with a Threat Prevention subscription, who want to keep domain fronting detection enabled, can block attacks for this vulnerability by enabling Threat ID 94971 (introduced in Applications and Threats content version 8854).

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