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U.S. Dept Of Defense · Report #2468496

GlobalProtect - OS Command Injection #█████████

Validstatus
criticalseverity
14upvotes
12 Jan 2026disclosed

How it was found

Description: A command injection vulnerability in the GlobalProtect feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software for specific PAN-OS versions and distinct feature configurations may enable an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the firewall.Cloud NGFW, Panorama appliances, and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

References

- https://labs.watchtowr.com/palo-alto-putting-the-protecc-in-globalprotect-CVE-2024-3400/
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/SSTk336Tmf/cve-2024-3400/rapid7-analysis
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3400

Impact

GlobalProtect - OS Command Injection

System Host(s)

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Affected Product(s) and Version(s)

CVE Numbers

Steps to Reproduce

#poc

CVE-2024-3400 Palo Alto OS Command Injection

send this HTTP request:

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you will create hellome1337.txt file on the server with root access

now if you try to access the files you should receive 403 insted of 404

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More Info : https://github.com/h4x0r-dz/CVE-2024-3400?tab=readme-ov-file https://attackerkb.com/topics/SSTk336Tmf/cve-2024-3400/rapid7-analysis https://labs.watchtowr.com/palo-alto-putting-the-protecc-in-globalprotect-cve-2024-3400/

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