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Palo Alto Networks Patches Unauthenticated Command Execution Flaw in Cortex XSOAR

Palo Alto Networks has patched multiple vulnerabilities, including ones rated high severity, in several products.

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Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday announced patches for vulnerabilities found in several of its products, including flaws that have been assigned a ‘high severity’ rating.

The most important vulnerability is CVE-2024-5914, described as a high-severity command injection issue affecting the company’s Cortex XSOAR security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) product.   

Specifically, the flaw affects the product’s CommonScripts Pack and allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands within the context of an integration container.

However, Palo Alto Networks noted that only certain configurations are impacted. Patches are being included in versions starting with 1.12.33.

Another advisory with an overall rating of ‘high severity’ describes vulnerabilities in the Prisma Access Browser. The browser is based on Chromium and the cybersecurity giant has now integrated the latest upstream security fixes, which cover over 30 vulnerabilities.

The company has also released advisories for two medium-severity issues: CVE-2024-5916, a PAN-OS bug that enables a read-only administrator to read secrets, passwords and tokens associated with external systems; and CVE-2024-5915, a GlobalProtect app flaw that allows a local attacker to escalate privileges. 

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Palo Alto Networks pointed out that it’s not aware of any malicious attacks exploiting these vulnerabilities.

However, threat actors targeting vulnerabilities in Palo Alto products is not unheard of. A few months ago, state-sponsored threat actors exploited a zero-day to deploy a backdoor on the company’s firewalls. 

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Eduard Kovacs (@EduardKovacs) is senior managing editor at SecurityWeek. He worked as a high school IT teacher before starting a career in journalism in 2011. Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in computer techniques applied in electrical engineering.

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