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Description

An unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Checkov by Prisma® Cloud allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code as a non administrative user by scanning a malicious terraform file when using Checkov in Prisma® Cloud. This issue impacts Checkov 3.0 versions earlier than Checkov 3.2.415.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-03-10 | Published 2025-08-13 | Updated 2025-08-13 | Assigner palo_alto




MEDIUM: 4.8CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

If the user scans infrastructure as code (IaC) files from untrusted sources.

Problem types

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Product status

Default status
unaffected

3.2.0 before 3.2.415
affected

Timeline

2025-08-13:Initial publication

Credits

Palo Alto Networks thanks Bryan Eastes for discovering and reporting this issue. finder

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-2180 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-2180)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-2180)

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