A null pointer dereference in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software on PA-800 Series, PA-3200 Series, PA-5200 Series, and PA-7000 Series hardware platforms when Decryption policy is enabled allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash PAN-OS by sending specific traffic through the data plane, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition will result in PAN-OS entering maintenance mode.


Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Cloud NGFW, and Prisma Access are not affected.


This issue only affects PA-800 Series, PA-3200 Series, PA-5200 Series, and PA-7000 Series running these specific versions of PAN-OS:

  *  10.2.7-h12
  *  10.2.8-h10
  *  10.2.9-h9
  *  10.2.9-h11
  *  10.2.10-h2
  *  10.2.10-h3
  *  10.2.11
  *  10.2.11-h1
  *  10.2.11-h2
  *  10.2.11-h3
  *  11.1.2-h9
  *  11.1.2-h12
  *  11.1.3-h2
  *  11.1.3-h4
  *  11.1.3-h6
  *  11.2.2
  *  11.2.2-h1

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. CWE-476

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9472 [No types assigned]