CVE-2025-4228
Cortex XDR Broker VM: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
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Cortex XDR Broker VM: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex® XDR Broker VM allows an authenticated administrative user to execute certain files available within the Broker VM and escalate their privileges to root.
Reserved 2025-05-02 | Published 2025-06-12 | Updated 2025-06-13 | Assigner palo_altoCWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
| 2025-06-11: | Initial Publication |
This issue was discovered during an internal penetration test
security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-4228
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