CVE-2023-6791 (GCVE-0-2023-6791)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-13 18:30 – Updated: 2026-02-25 16:34
VLAI?
Title
PAN-OS: Plaintext Disclosure of External System Integration Credentials
Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.9 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-701 - Weakness Introduced During Design
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palo Alto Networks | PAN-OS |
Affected:
8.1 , < 8.1.24-h1
(custom)
Affected: 9.0 , < 9.0.17 (custom) Affected: 9.1 , < 9.1.16 (custom) Affected: 10.0 , < 10.0.12 (custom) Affected: 10.1 , < 10.1.9 (custom) Affected: 10.2 , < 10.2.4 (custom) Affected: 11.0 , < 11.0.1 (custom) Unaffected: 11.1 , < All (custom) |
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Credits
Palo Alto Networks thanks Kajetan Rostojek for discovering and reporting this issue.
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Nomenclature
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