CVE record · CVE-2024-3400

PAN-OS: Arbitrary File Creation Leads to OS Command Injection Vulnerability in GlobalProtect

CVSS 10.0 CriticalCriticalIn CISA KEV · ransomwareEPSS 1.00 · 100th percentile

Critical, because:

In CISA’s KEV catalogue since 12 Apr 2024: it is known to be exploited.
CVSS score 10.0: 9.0 or more.
CVSS score 10.0 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 1.00 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: palo_alto) at 12 Apr 2024, 07:20 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks	PAN-OS	unaffected 9.0.0 unaffected 9.1.0 unaffected 10.0.0 unaffected 10.1.0 affected 10.2.0 to before 10.2.9-h1 custom affected 11.0.0 to before 11.0.4-h1 custom affected 11.1.0 to before 11.1.2-h3 custom Other versions: unaffected
Palo Alto Networks	Cloud NGFW	unaffected All Other versions: unaffected
Palo Alto Networks	Prisma Access	unaffected All Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2024-3400
CNA: palo_alto
Weakness (CWE): CWE-20 · CWE-77
Tags: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
Command injection
CWE-20
Published: 12 Apr 2024
Updated: 21 Oct 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
10.0	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (palo_alto)

CISA KEV Listed since 12 Apr 2024: known to be exploited. CISA reports use in ransomware campaigns.
EPSS 1.00, the 100th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 12 Apr 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-3400 vendor-advisory
unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/cve-2024-3400/ technical-description
www.volexity.com/blog/2024/04/12/zero-day-exploitation-of-unauthenticated-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-globalprotect-cve-2024-3400/ technical-description
www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2024/04/more-on-the-pan-os-cve/ technical-description

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.