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The following conditions must be true to be vulnerable to this issue:

  1. Your PA-7500 Series devices must be in an NGFW cluster. For more information regarding NGFW Clusters see our documentation.

  2. A MACsec policy must be configured and enabled for the NGFW cluster. For more information about MACsec profiles please see our documentation.

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A user who possesses this key can read messages being sent between devices in a NGFW Cluster. There is no impact in non-clustered firewalls or clusters of firewalls that do not enable MACsec. 

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Minor Version
Suggested Solution
Cloud NGFW
No action needed.
PAN-OS 11.2 on PA-7500
11.2.0 through 11.2.7Upgrade to 11.2.8 or later.
PAN-OS 11.1 on PA-7500
11.1.0 through 11.1.9Upgrade to 11.1.10 or later.
PAN-OS 10.2 on PA-7500
No action needed.
PAN-OS 10.1 on PA-7500
No action needed.
PAN-OS on devices other than PA-7500
No action needed.
All older
unsupported
PAN-OS versions		 Upgrade to a supported fixed version.
Prisma Access
No action needed.
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