SSA-364175

Siemens Security Advisory by Siemens ProductCERT

SSA-364175: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW on RUGGEDCOM APE1808 Devices Before V11.1.4-h1

Publication Date:	2024-07-09
Last Update:	2025-07-08
Current Version:	V1.6
CVSS v3.1 Base Score:	9.1
CVSS v4.0 Base Score:	9.1

SUMMARY

Palo Alto Networks has published [1] information on vulnerabilities in PAN-OS. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products affected by these vulnerabilities.

Siemens is preparing updates and recommends specific countermeasures for products where updates are not, or not yet available. Customers are advised to consult and implement the workarounds provided in Palo Alto Networks' upstream security notifications.

[1] https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/

KNOWN AFFECTED PRODUCTS

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Affected Product and Versions	Remediation
RUGGEDCOM APE1808	Upgrade Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW V11.1.4-h1. Contact customer support to receive patch and update information See further recommendations from section Workarounds and Mitigations
RUGGEDCOM APE1808 All versions with Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW before V11.1.4-h1 configured with support for the CHACHA20-POLY1305 algorithm or any Encrypt-then-MAC algorithms affected by CVE-2023-48795	Upgrade Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW V11.1.4-h1. Contact customer support to receive patch and update information See further recommendations from section Workarounds and Mitigations
RUGGEDCOM APE1808 All versions with Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW before V11.1.4-h1 affected by multiple CVEs CVE-2024-3596 CVE-2024-5913 CVE-2024-5920 CVE-2024-9468 CVE-2024-9471 CVE-2025-4231	Upgrade Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW V11.1.4-h1. Contact customer support to receive patch and update information See further recommendations from section Workarounds and Mitigations
RUGGEDCOM APE1808 All versions with an enabled GlobalProtect portal or gateway affected by CVE-2025-0114	Upgrade Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW V11.1.4-h1. Contact customer support to receive patch and update information See further recommendations from section Workarounds and Mitigations

WORKAROUNDS AND MITIGATIONS

Siemens has identified the following specific workarounds and mitigations that customers can apply to reduce the risk:

CVE-2025-4231: Exposure can be reduced by limiting access to the management interface to trusted internal IP addresses as described in Palo Alto Networks' Security Advisory
Customers can resolve this issue by configuring the in-use SSH profile to contain at least one cipher and at least one MAC algorithm, which removes support for CHACHA20-POLY1305 and all Encrypt-then-MAC algorithms available (ciphers with -etm in the name) in PAN-OS software. See Palo Alto Networks' upstream documentation https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-48795 for additional guidance.
Restrict access to the networks where RADIUS messages are exchanged (e.g., send RADIUS traffic via management network or a dedicated VLAN)
Conﬁgure the RADIUS server to require the presence of a Message-Authenticator attribute in all Access-Request packets from RADIUS client devices that support it

Please follow the General Security Recommendations.

GENERAL SECURITY RECOMMENDATIONS

As a general security measure, Siemens strongly recommends to protect network access to devices with appropriate mechanisms. In order to operate the devices in a protected IT environment, Siemens recommends to configure the environment according to Siemens' operational guidelines for Industrial Security (Download: https://www.siemens.com/cert/operational-guidelines-industrial-security), and to follow the recommendations in the product manuals. Additional information on Industrial Security by Siemens can be found at: https://www.siemens.com/industrialsecurity

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

RUGGEDCOM APE1808 is a powerful utility-grade application hosting platform that lets you deploy a range of commercially available applications for edge computing and cybersecurity in harsh, industrial environments.

VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION

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This chapter describes all vulnerabilities (CVE-IDs) addressed in this security advisory. Wherever applicable, it also documents the product-specific impact of the individual vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability CVE-2023-48795

The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass integrity checks such that some packets are omitted (from the extension negotiation message), and a client and server may consequently end up with a connection for which some security features have been downgraded or disabled, aka a Terrapin attack. This occurs because the SSH Binary Packet Protocol (BPP), implemented by these extensions, mishandles the handshake phase and mishandles use of sequence numbers. For example, there is an effective attack against SSH's use of ChaCha20-Poly1305 (and CBC with Encrypt-then-MAC). The bypass occurs in chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com and (if CBC is used) the -etm@openssh.com MAC algorithms. This also affects Maverick Synergy Java SSH API before 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT, Dropbear through 2022.83, Ssh before 5.1.1 in Erlang/OTP, PuTTY before 0.80, AsyncSSH before 2.14.2, golang.org/x/crypto before 0.17.0, libssh before 0.10.6, libssh2 through 1.11.0, Thorn Tech SFTP Gateway before 3.4.6, Tera Term before 5.1, Paramiko before 3.4.0, jsch before 0.2.15, SFTPGo before 2.5.6, Netgate pfSense Plus through 23.09.1, Netgate pfSense CE through 2.7.2, HPN-SSH through 18.2.0, ProFTPD before 1.3.8b (and before1.3.9rc2), ORYX CycloneSSH before 2.3.4, NetSarang XShell 7 before Build 0144, CrushFTP before 10.6.0, ConnectBot SSH library before 2.2.22, Apache MINA sshd through 2.11.0, sshj through 0.37.0, TinySSH through 20230101, trilead-ssh2 6401, the net-ssh gem 7.2.0 for Ruby, the mscdex ssh2 module before 1.15.0 for Node.js, the thrussh library before 0.35.1 for Rust, and the Russh crate before 0.40.2 for Rust; and there could be effects on Bitvise SSH through 9.31.

CVSS v3.1 Base Score	5.9
CVSS v3.1 Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE	CWE-222: Truncation of Security-relevant Information

Vulnerability CVE-2024-3596

RADIUS Protocol under RFC 2865 is susceptible to forgery attacks by a local attacker who can modify responses Access-Reject or Access-Accept using a chosen-prefix collision attack against MD5 Response Authenticator signature.

CVSS v3.1 Base Score	9.0
CVSS v3.1 Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0 Base Score	9.1
CVSS v4.0 Vector	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CWE	CWE-924: Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel

Vulnerability CVE-2024-5913

An improper input validation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an attacker with the ability to tamper with the physical file system to elevate privileges.

CVSS v3.1 Base Score	6.8
CVSS v3.1 Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0 Base Score	5.4
CVSS v4.0 Vector	CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE	CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Vulnerability CVE-2024-5920

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated read-write Panorama administrator to push a specially crafted configuration to a PAN-OS node. This enables impersonation of a legitimate PAN-OS administrator who can perform restricted actions on the PAN-OS node after the execution of JavaScript in the legitimate PAN-OS administrator's browser.

CVSS v3.1 Base Score	2.4
CVSS v3.1 Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0 Base Score	4.6
CVSS v4.0 Vector	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE	CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Vulnerability CVE-2024-9468

A memory corruption vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash PAN-OS due to a crafted packet through the data plane, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. Repeated attempts to trigger this condition will result in PAN-OS entering maintenance mode.

CVSS v3.1 Base Score	5.9
CVSS v3.1 Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0 Base Score	8.2
CVSS v4.0 Vector	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE	CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Vulnerability CVE-2024-9471

A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the XML API of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated PAN-OS administrator with restricted privileges to use a compromised XML API key to perform actions as a higher privileged PAN-OS administrator. For example, an administrator with "Virtual system administrator (read-only)" access could use an XML API key of a "Virtual system administrator" to perform write operations on the virtual system configuration even though they should be limited to read-only operations.

CVSS v3.1 Base Score	4.7
CVSS v3.1 Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS v4.0 Base Score	5.1
CVSS v4.0 Vector	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE	CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Vulnerability CVE-2025-0114

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the GlobalProtect feature of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker to render the service unavailable by sending a large number of specially crafted packets over a period of time. This issue affects both the GlobalProtect portal and the GlobalProtect gateway.

CVSS v3.1 Base Score	5.9
CVSS v3.1 Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0 Base Score	8.2
CVSS v4.0 Vector	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE	CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Vulnerability CVE-2025-4231

A command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® enables an authenticated administrative user to perform actions as the root user. The attacker must have network access to the management web interface and successfully authenticate to exploit this issue.

CVSS v3.1 Base Score	9.1
CVSS v3.1 Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0 Base Score	8.6
CVSS v4.0 Vector	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N
CWE	CWE-77: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Customers are advised to consult and implement the workarounds provided in Palo Alto Networks' upstream security notifications [1]. PANW provides a public RSS feed for their security alerts to which customers can also subscribe [2].

[1] https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/?version=PAN-OS+11.1.2-h3&product=PAN-OS
[2] https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/rss.xml

For further inquiries on security vulnerabilities in Siemens products and solutions, please contact the Siemens ProductCERT: https://www.siemens.com/cert/advisories

HISTORY DATA

V1.0 (2024-07-09):	Publication Date
V1.1 (2024-08-13):	Added newly published CVE-2024-5913 and CVE-2024-3596
V1.2 (2024-10-08):	Added CVE-2023-48795, CVE-2024-3596, CVE-2024-5913 and fix version information for Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW on RUGGEDCOM APE1808 devices
V1.3 (2024-11-12):	Added newly published CVE-2024-9468 and CVE-2024-9471. Added CVSSv4.0 vector to CVE-2024-5913
V1.4 (2024-12-10):	Added newly published CVE-2024-5920
V1.5 (2025-04-08):	Added newly published CVE-2025-0114
V1.6 (2025-07-08):	Added newly published CVE-2025-4231

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