CVE-2024-5910 — Expedition
CRITICALCVE-2024-5910 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Missing Authentication vulnerability in paloaltonetworks expedition. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-11-07) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
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:…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-11-07. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2024-11-28.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2024-5910.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-5910 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
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.
Affected Products
expeditionpaloaltonetworksResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Palo Alto Networks Expedition 1.2.90.1 - Admin Account Takeover
by ByteHunter · Apr 6, 2025
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every paloaltonetworks expedition deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Fix
Apply the paloaltonetworks expedition security patch or hotfix for CVE-2024-5910 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2024-5910
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-5910 -u https://target- Template
- Palo Alto Expedition - Admin Account Takeover
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Attackers with network access can exploit missing authentication to takeover Expedition admin accounts without credentials.
- Remediation
- Update Palo Alto Networks Expedition to the latest version that patches CVE-2024-5910 as specified in the Palo Alto security advisory.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (johnk3r), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-5910 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.