CVE-2024-5910: Expedition: Missing Authentication Leads to Admin Account Takeover
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Now (action score 95/100)
- CISA has confirmed exploitation in the wild (Nov 7, 2024). Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Nov 28, 2024.
- A ready-made attack module is public (Metasploit, Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 91.6% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 99.8% of all records.
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- Fixed version: Palo Alto Networks Expedition 1.2.92.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Patch today or shut off access. Upgrade to Palo Alto Networks Expedition 1.2.92 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 · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS
Missing authentication for a critical function in Palo Alto Networks Expedition can lead to an Expedition admin account takeover for attackers with network access to Expedition. Note: Expedition is a tool aiding in configuration migration, tuning, and enrichment. Configuration secrets, credentials, and other data imported into Expedition is at risk due to this issue.
- Published
- Jul 10, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 91.6% · 99th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-306
Report tools
Action score
95
Now
Patch today or shut off access.
- CVSS
- 37 / 40 · 9.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 30 / 30 · Listed
- EPSS
- 28 / 30 · 91.6%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- active
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · palo_alto
- 9.3
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Red
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Actively exploited in the wild
CISA added this to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Nov 7, 2024. That signals real attacks, not theory.
Remediation deadline for US federal agencies: Nov 28, 2024.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| paloaltonetworks | expedition | cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:expedition |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- paloaltonetworks expedition1.2.0 and later · before 1.2.92
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 Expedition
- 1.2 and later · before 1.2.92affectedfixed in 1.2.92
Same product
paloaltonetworks: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2024-9463Expedition: Unauthenticated OS Command Injection Vulnerability Leads to Firewall Credential DisclosureKEV99Now
- CVE-2024-9465Expedition: SQL Injection Leads to Firewall Admin Credential DisclosureKEV96Now
- CVE-2024-9464Expedition: Authenticated OS Command Injection Vulnerability Leads to Firewall Admin Credential Disclosure62This week
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2019-1570Mar 26, 2019 · The Expedition Migration tool 1.1.8 and earlier may allow an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary JavaScript or HTML in the LDAP server s19Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2019-1571Mar 26, 2019 · The Expedition Migration tool 1.1.8 and earlier may allow an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary JavaScript or HTML in the RADIUS server19Monitor
- Later →CVE-2024-9466Oct 9, 2024 · Expedition: Cleartext Storage of Information Leads to Firewall Admin Credential Disclosure36Monitor
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 Expedition | 1.2.92 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
Weaponized
A ready exploit tool or active in-the-wild use is known for this vulnerability. This should be your top priority.
Evidence
- Metasploit module ×1
- Exploit-DB entry ×1
- Nuclei detection template ×1
Noroxi does not host or link to exploit code. Metasploit module names and Nuclei template ids are shown (names, not code); Exploit-DB entries and PoC repositories are given as counts only.
| Source | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Exploit-DB entry | webapps | 2025-04-06 |
| Metasploit module | exploit/linux/http/paloalto_expedition_rcePalo Alto Expedition Remote Code Execution (CVE-2024-5910 and CVE-2024-9464)exploit | 2024-10-09 |
| Nuclei detection template | Nuclei template CVE-2024-5910 | — |
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.
- Published
- Metasploit+90 d
- CISA KEV+119 d
- First PoC+269 d
- TodayNov 2, 2026+845 d
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
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
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-2024-946491 days apartExpedition: Authenticated OS Command Injection Vulnerability Leads to Firewall Admin Credential Disclosure62This week
Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-24-0945 · Jul 16, 2024(Palo Alto Expedition Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Availability
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- X
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-306 · Missing Authentication for Critical FunctionCVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/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:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Red
nvd-secondary
Root cause
A function added for development or support ships to production without authentication. It often relies on the assumption that it is “only reachable from the internal network.”
The bug in code
The whole CWE-306 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
// Added for the support team
app.post("/maintenance/reset", resetDevice);Fixed
if (config.maintenanceEnabled) {
app.post(
"/maintenance/reset",
requireSession, requireRole("admin"), resetDevice
);
}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✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.