Description

An information exposure vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables a local system administrator to unintentionally disclose secrets, passwords, and tokens of external systems. A read-only administrator who has access to the config log, can read secrets, passwords, and tokens to external systems.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-5916

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber

Affected Products

Vendor: Palo Alto Networks

Product: PAN-OS, Cloud NGFW, Prisma Access

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 13.99% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-07 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5916
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5916

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