CVE-2024-9466
Expedition: Cleartext Storage of Information Leads to Firewall Admin Credential Disclosure
- Published
- Oct 9, 2024
- Updated
- Sep 4, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- palo_alto
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/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:H/U:AmberModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 96.3%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
A cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition allows an authenticated attacker to reveal firewall usernames, passwords, and API keys generated using those credentials.
Sources
1Proof-of-concept script to detect CVE-2024-9466 by checking HTTP responses for a specific debug file path on target URLs.
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