Exploit released for Palo Alto PAN-OS bug used in attacks, patch now
Exploit code is now available for a maximum severity and actively exploited vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS firewall software.
Tracked as CVE-2024-3400, this security flaw can let unauthenticated threat actors execute arbitrary code as root via command injection in low-complexity attacks on vulnerable PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, and PAN-OS 11.1 firewalls if the device telemetry and GlobalProtect (gateway or portal) feature are enabled.
While Palo Alto Networks has started releasing hotfixes on Monday to secure unpatched firewalls exposed to attacks, the vulnerability has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since March 26th to backdoor firewalls using Upstyle malware, pivot to internal networks, and steal data by a threat group believed to be state-sponsored and tracked as UTA0218..
Security threat monitoring platform Shadowserver says it sees more than 156,000 PAN-OS firewall instances on the Internet daily; however, it doesn’t provide information on how many are vulnerable.