Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-8688

Paloaltonetworks Pan-Os 9.1.0 – 9.1.15

Published
11 September 2024
Modified
03 October 2024
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v4 6.7
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/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
EPSS Score 0.0024 14th percentile
Risk Priority 23 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2024-8688 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Wildcards or Matching Symbols (CWE-155) vulnerability in Paloaltonetworks Pan-Os. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 14th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

An improper neutralization of matching symbols vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS command line interface (CLI) enables authenticated administrators (including read-only administrators) with access to the CLI to to read arbitrary files on the firewall.

CWE(s)
CWE-155NVD-CWE-Other

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Affected Assets

paloaltonetworks
pan-os
10.1.0 · 9.1.0 — 9.1.15 · 10.0.0 — 10.0.10

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation partial match

Input validation directly requires checking and sanitizing special elements such as wildcards before they are passed downstream.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly require input neutralization to block wildcard injection.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing can detect wildcard issues but does not itself implement neutralization controls.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
prevents

Secure development lifecycle mandates input validation and sanitization that directly prevents wildcard injection.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
prevents

Application security requirements include rules for neutralizing special characters before downstream processing.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
prevents

Secure architecture principles encourage safe handling of untrusted input but do not prescribe specific wildcard neutralization.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards explicitly require proper escaping or neutralization of wildcard and matching symbols.

References