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CVE-2024-3400

Exploitation: active CVSS 10.0 CRITICAL Ransomware: known use

CVSS base score: 10.0 (Critical) vendor CNA · v3.1

Score assigned by the vendor's own CVE Numbering Authority (CNA); CISA's Vulnrichment program adds a score only when the CNA omits one.

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Command Injection Vulnerability

Vendor: Palo Alto Networks   Product: PAN-OS

Description

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect feature contains a command injection vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute commands with root privileges on the firewall.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 140 points from 2024-04-13, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 100.0% on 2026-06-20.

Published Applicability

CVE List v5 (CNA container) 3 affected · 0 fixed · 9 not affected
CVE List v5 (ADP/Vulnrichment) 3 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

Check whether a specific version is affected → 3 source disagreements

What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Scan
Exploit / Pen Test

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
yes
total
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10.0 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-77 — Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
2024-05-01

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-77) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

KEV Catalog Status

2024-04-12
2024-04-19
Known

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA KEV 2024-04-12 source record →
CISA Vulnrichment 2024-05-01 source record →

Referenced in Advisories

DateAdvisoryIssuer
2025-08-27 Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System NSA
2025-08-27 Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System NSA
2025-08-27 CSA: Countering China State Actors Compromise of Networks NSA
2024-08-28 Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations CISA
2024-08-28 Iran-Based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on U.S. Organizations FBI
2024-07-10 CISA and FBI Release Secure by Design Alert on Eliminating OS Command Injection Vulnerabilities CISA
2024-04-29 2024-037: Critical Vulnerability in PAN-OS software CERT-EU
2024-04-12 Palo Alto Networks Releases Guidance for Vulnerability in PAN-OS, CVE-2024-3400 CISA

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References