CVE-2024-9465 — Expedition
CRITICALCVE-2024-9465 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.1) SQL 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. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
An SQL injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an unauthenticated attacker to reveal Expedition database contents, such as password hashes, usernames, device…
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-2024-9465.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-9465 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 394,415 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
An SQL injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an unauthenticated attacker to reveal Expedition database contents, such as password hashes, usernames, device configurations, and device API keys. With this, attackers can also create and read arbitrary files on the Expedition system.
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.
An SQL injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows a…
An SQL injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows a…
An SQL injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows a…
An SQL injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows a…
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-2024-9465 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
Until you can upgrade, make sure every query built from user input uses parameterised statements or a prepared-statement API rather than string concatenation, and reduce the database account's privileges so an injected query cannot read or alter data beyond what the feature needs. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2024-9465
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-9465 -u https://target- Template
- Palo Alto Expedition - SQL Injection
- Severity
- high
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can exploit SQL injection to reveal Expedition database contents including password hashes, usernames, device configurations, and API keys, and create or read arbitrary files on the system.
- Remediation
- Apply security updates from Palo Alto Networks as specified in security advisory PAN-SA-2024-0010 to address the SQL injection vulnerability in Expedition.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (DhiyaneshDK), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-9465 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.