CVE-2024-0012 PoC — PAN-OS: Authentication Bypass in the Management Web Interface (PAN-SA-2024-0015)

Source

https://github.com/watchtowrlabs/palo-alto-panos-cve-2024-0012

Associated Vulnerability

Title:PAN-OS: Authentication Bypass in the Management Web Interface (PAN-SA-2024-0015) (CVE-2024-0012)
Description:An authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to gain PAN-OS administrator privileges to perform administrative actions, tamper with the configuration, or exploit other authenticated privilege escalation vulnerabilities like CVE-2024-9474 https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9474 . The risk of this issue is greatly reduced if you secure access to the management web interface by restricting access to only trusted internal IP addresses according to our recommended best practice deployment guidelines https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-access-of-your-palo/ba-p/464431 . This issue is applicable only to PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, PAN-OS 11.1, and PAN-OS 11.2 software. Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Readme

# CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474
Authentication Bypass in the Management Web Interface (PAN-SA-2024-0015) and Authenticated Command Injection in Palo Alto PAN-OS

 See our [blog post](http://labs.watchtowr.com/pots-and-pans-aka-an-sslvpn-palo-alto-pan-os-cve-2024-0012-and-cve-2024-9474) for technical details



# Affected Versions

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# Exploit authors

This exploit was written by Sonny of [watchTowr (@watchtowrcyber)](https://twitter.com/watchtowrcyber) 


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