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You can mitigate the impact of this issue by following best practices for securing the PAN-OS web interface. Please review the Best Practices for Securing Administrative Access in the PAN-OS technical documentation at https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices/10-1/administrative-access-best-practices/administrative-access-best-practices/deploy-administrative-access-best-practices."}],"exploits":[{"lang":"en","value":"Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue."}],"timeline":[{"lang":"en","time":"2022-10-12T00:00:00.000Z","value":"Initial publication"}],"solutions":[{"lang":"en","value":"This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 8.1.24 and all later PAN-OS versions.\n\nPlease note that PAN-OS 8.1 has reached its software end-of-life (EoL) and is supported only on PA-200, PA-500, and PA-5000 Series firewalls and on M-100 appliances and only until each of their respective hardware EoL dates:  https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/services/support/end-of-life-announcements/hardware-end-of-life-dates.html."}]},"adp":[{"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0030","tags":["x_transferred"]}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CVE","orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","dateUpdated":"2024-08-02T23:18:41.402Z"}},{"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","metrics":[{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"timestamp":"2025-05-15T13:59:44.889716Z","id":"CVE-2022-0030","options":[{"Exploitation":"none"},{"Automatable":"no"},{"Technical Impact":"total"}],"role":"CISA Coordinator","version":"2.0.3"}}}],"providerMetadata":{"shortName":"CISA-ADP","orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","dateUpdated":"2025-05-15T14:00:04.162Z"}}]}}}