CVE-2024-9463 — Expedition
CVE-2024-9463 is a OS Command Injection vulnerability in paloaltonetworks expedition. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-11-14) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
An OS command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary OS commands as root in Expedition, resulting in disclosure…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-11-14. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2024-12-05.
- 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-2024-9463.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
Description
An OS command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary OS commands as root in Expedition, resulting in disclosure of usernames, cleartext passwords, device configurations, and device API keys of PAN-OS firewalls.
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.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every paloaltonetworks expedition deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2024-9463 yet — track the paloaltonetworks expedition advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2024-9463
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-9463 -u https://target- Template
- PaloAlto Networks Expedition - Remote Code Execution
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Successful exploitation could result in unauthorized access and control of the affected device.
- Remediation
- Apply the necessary security patches provided by Palo Alto Networks to mitigate the CVE-2024-9463 vulnerability.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (princechaddha), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-9463 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.