Palo Alto Networks Patches High-Severity PAN-OS Flaws: Your Firewall Might Be More Vulnerable Than Your Wi-Fi Password

Palo Alto Networks has released patches for dozens of vulnerabilities across its products, including PAN-OS, Cortex XDR, and Prisma Access Browser. The most critical is CVE-2024-8686, a PAN-OS command injection flaw allowing admin-privileged attackers to run arbitrary commands. Update now to avoid hackers playing admin…

Hot Take:

Well, folks, it looks like Palo Alto Networks just dropped more patches than a quilt-making contest! Time to update everything and hope we don’t accidentally open a portal to the ’90s internet.

Key Points:

  • Palo Alto Networks released patches for dozens of vulnerabilities across multiple products.
  • The most critical flaw, CVE-2024-8686, allows admins to bypass restrictions and run arbitrary commands.
  • Chromium-based Prisma Access Browser updated to fix 29 high-severity vulnerabilities.
  • Several medium-severity vulnerabilities in PAN-OS, including password exposure and user impersonation.
  • A Cortex XDR Agent vulnerability on Windows can allow malware to disable the agent.

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