CVE-2023-6791

PAN-OS: Plaintext Disclosure of External System Integration Credentials

Severity Score

4.9

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

A credential disclosure vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated read-only administrator to obtain the plaintext credentials of stored external system integrations such as LDAP, SCP, RADIUS, TACACS+, and SNMP from the web interface.

Vulnerabilidad de divulgación de credenciales en el software PAN-OS de Palo Alto Networks permite a un administrador autenticado de solo lectura obtener las credenciales en texto plano de integraciones de sistemas externos almacenados, como LDAP, SCP, RADIUS, TACACS+ y SNMP desde la interfaz web.

*Credits: Palo Alto Networks thanks Kajetan Rostojek for discovering and reporting this issue.

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Multiple

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2023-12-13 CVE Reserved
2023-12-13 CVE Published
2024-08-02 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials
CWE CATEGORY

CAPEC

References (1)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-6791	2023-12-18

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Paloaltonetworks Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks"		Pan-os Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os"				>= 8.1.0 < 8.1.24 Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os" and version " >= 8.1.0 < 8.1.24"		-		Affected
Paloaltonetworks Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks"		Pan-os Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os"				>= 9.0.0 < 9.0.17 Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os" and version " >= 9.0.0 < 9.0.17"		-		Affected
Paloaltonetworks Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks"		Pan-os Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os"				>= 9.1.0 < 9.1.16 Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os" and version " >= 9.1.0 < 9.1.16"		-		Affected
Paloaltonetworks Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks"		Pan-os Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os"				>= 10.0.0 < 10.0.12 Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os" and version " >= 10.0.0 < 10.0.12"		-		Affected
Paloaltonetworks Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks"		Pan-os Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os"				>= 10.1.0 < 10.1.9 Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os" and version " >= 10.1.0 < 10.1.9"		-		Affected
Paloaltonetworks Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks"		Pan-os Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os"				>= 10.2.0 < 10.2.4 Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os" and version " >= 10.2.0 < 10.2.4"		-		Affected
Paloaltonetworks Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks"		Pan-os Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os"				11.0.0 Search vendor "Paloaltonetworks" for product "Pan-os" and version "11.0.0"		-		Affected