NVD / CVE Program· CNA palo_alto

CVE-2024-9464: Expedition: Authenticated OS Command Injection Vulnerability Leads to Firewall Admin Credential Disclosure

Noroxi assessment

Priority: This week (action score 62/100)

Public proof-of-concept code exists (GitHub); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 82.6% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 99.6% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Palo Alto Networks Expedition 1.2.96.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window. Upgrade to Palo Alto Networks Expedition 1.2.96 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

An OS command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an authenticated attacker to run arbitrary OS commands as root in Expedition, resulting in disclosure of usernames, cleartext passwords, device configurations, and device API keys of PAN-OS firewalls.

CriticalCVSS 9.3 · v4.0—Proof of concept Fix available

BDU:2024-08106

Published: Oct 9, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 82.6% · 99th percentile
CWE: CWE-78

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This week

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window.

CVSS: 37 / 40 · 9.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 25 / 30 · 82.6%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
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:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber

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Affected systems

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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 1.2.96

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
- 1.2.0 and later · before 1.2.96affectedfixed in 1.2.96

Same product

paloaltonetworks: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2024-9463Expedition: Unauthenticated OS Command Injection Vulnerability Leads to Firewall Credential DisclosureKEV
99Now
CVE-2024-9465Expedition: SQL Injection Leads to Firewall Admin Credential DisclosureKEV
96Now
CVE-2024-5910Expedition: Missing Authentication Leads to Admin Account TakeoverKEV
95Now

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 s
19Monitor
← 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 server
19Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-9466Oct 9, 2024 · Expedition: Cleartext Storage of Information Leads to Firewall Admin Credential Disclosure
36Monitor

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	1.2.96	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×1

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:45	2024-10-09

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.

First PoCOct 9, 2024-1 d
PublishedOct 9, 2024
TodayOct 31, 2026+752 d

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

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Enrique CastilloPalo Alto Networksfinder
Zach Hanley (@hacks_zach)Horizon3.aifinder

Variant candidates

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

CVE-2024-94630 days apartExpedition: Unauthenticated OS Command Injection Vulnerability Leads to Firewall Credential DisclosureKEV
99Now
CVE-2025-010793 days apartExpedition: OS Command Injection Vulnerability
54Plan

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-2024-591091 days apartExpedition: Missing Authentication Leads to Admin Account TakeoverKEV
95Now

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-24-1651 · Oct 10, 2024(Palo Alto Çoklu Ürün Güvenlik Bildirimi)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
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: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-78 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/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:H/U:Amber

nvd-secondary

Root cause

User input is inserted as text into a shell command. The shell may interpret special characters in the input as part of the command.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-78 class

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

Vulnerable

1const host = req.body.host;
2exec("ping -c 1 " + host, onResult);

Fixed

1const host = req.body.host;
2if (!/^[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}$/i.test(host)) return res.sendStatus(400);
3execFile("ping", ["-c", "1", host], onResult);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

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References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/PAN-SA-2024-0010

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www.horizon3.ai/attack-research/palo-alto-expedition-from-n-day-to-full-compromise/

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