CVE-2024-9466

Expedition vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

12.9%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

A cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an authenticated attacker to reveal firewall usernames, passwords, and API keys generated using those credentials.

Affected vendor

Paloaltonetworks

Affected product

Expedition

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
CWE-312 — Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Published

2024-10-09

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 12.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Paloaltonetworks Expedition is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2024-9466.
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