NVD / CVE Program· CNA palo_alto

CVE-2024-2552: PAN-OS: Arbitrary File Delete Vulnerability in the Command Line Interface (CLI)

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 27/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.47% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 10.2.12, 11.0.6, 11.1.5.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 10.2.12, 11.0.6, 11.1.5 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

A command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated administrator to bypass system restrictions in the management plane and delete files on the firewall.

MediumCVSS 6.8 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available

BDU:2024-09908

Published: Nov 14, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 41th percentile
CWE: CWE-22

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · palo_alto: 6.8; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
paloaltonetworks	pan-os	cpe:2.3:o:paloaltonetworks:pan-os

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Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

paloaltonetworks pan-os11.2.0 and later · before 11.2.4
paloaltonetworks pan-os11.0.0 and later · before 11.0.6
paloaltonetworks pan-os11.1.0 and later · before 11.1.4
paloaltonetworks pan-os10.2.0 and later · before 10.2.7
paloaltonetworks pan-os10.2.10
paloaltonetworks pan-os10.2.11
paloaltonetworks pan-os10.2.7
paloaltonetworks pan-os10.2.8
paloaltonetworks pan-os10.2.9
paloaltonetworks pan-os11.1.4

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (palo_alto). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW
- Allnot affected
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
- 10.1.0not affected
- 11.2.0 and later · before 11.2.4affectedfixed in 11.2.4
- 11.1.0 and later · before 11.1.5affectedfixed in 11.1.5
- 11.0.0 and later · before 11.0.6affectedfixed in 11.0.6
- 10.2.0 and later · before 10.2.12affectedfixed in 10.2.12
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
- Allnot affected

Same product

paloaltonetworks: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2024-3400PAN-OS: Arbitrary File Creation Leads to OS Command Injection Vulnerability in GlobalProtectKEV
100Now
CVE-2017-15944Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 6.1.19, 7.0.x before 7.0.19, 7.1.x before 7.1.14, and 8.0.x before 8.0.6 allows remote attackers to executeKEV
99Now
CVE-2024-0012PAN-OS: Authentication Bypass in the Management Web Interface (PAN-SA-2024-0015)KEV
97Now

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2024-2550Nov 14, 2024 · PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) in GlobalProtect Gateway Using a Specially Crafted Packet
34Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-2551Nov 14, 2024 · PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) Using a Specially Crafted Packet
34Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-5917Nov 14, 2024 · PAN-OS: Server-Side Request Forgery in WildFire
8Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	10.2.12	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.0.6	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.1.5	Vendor (CNA)
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS	11.2.4	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Bobby Storeyfinder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

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Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2024-00124 days apartPAN-OS: Authentication Bypass in the Management Web Interface (PAN-SA-2024-0015)KEV
97Now
CVE-2025-010890 days apartPAN-OS: Authentication Bypass in the Management Web InterfaceKEV
95Now

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
Administrator privileges are required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: High
User interaction: None
Scope: X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber

nvd-secondary

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-22 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);
2res.sendFile(file);

Fixed

1const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);
2if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {
3  return res.sendStatus(400);
4}
5res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

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References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-2552

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