CVE-2024-5910
Palo Alto Networks Expedition: Missing Authentication
As of , CVE-2024-5910 in Palo Alto Networks Expedition is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.
- Exploited
- Yes: CISA listed it on 7 November 2024
- US federal deadline
- 28 November 202421 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
- Used in ransomware campaigns
- Not known to CISA
- EPSS score
- 0.92Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- 0.01 on 7 November 2024EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
- Public exploit
- 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry
- Fix
- Vendor advice: security.paloaltonetworks.comLinks below, from CISA's entry.
What CISA says to do
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
Palo Alto Networks Expedition contains a missing authentication vulnerability that allows an attacker with network access to takeover an Expedition admin account and potentially access configuration secrets, credentials, and other data.
CISA's description
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.
The CVE record's description, from palo_alto
- CVE published
- 10 July 2024
- Assigned by
- palo_alto
- CVSS
- 9.3 Critical (CVSS 4.0, from the CNA)
- CWE-306
- Missing Authentication for Critical Function
- CISA SSVC, exploitation
- active
- CISA SSVC, automatable
- yes
- CISA SSVC, technical impact
- total
Timeline
- The CVE record was published.
- CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- The US federal deadline to fix it.
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 52129).
Public exploits
Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.
- Metasploit: Palo Alto Expedition Remote Code Execution (CVE-2024-5910 and CVE-2024-9464)exploit module, rank excellent
- Exploit-DB: Palo Alto Networks Expedition 1.2.90.1 - Admin Account TakeoverEDB-ID 52129, 6 April 2025
Expedition: other exploited entries
| Vulnerability | Product | Our group | Listed | Deadline | EPSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-9463OS Command Injection | Palo Alto Networks Expedition | Patch this weekEPSS 0.99 | 0.99 | ||
| CVE-2024-9465SQL Injection | Palo Alto Networks Expedition | Patch this weekEPSS 0.99 | 0.99 |
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org