CVE-2025-4228 | THREATINT

Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-05-02 | Published 2025-06-12 | Updated 2026-02-26 | Assigner palo_alto

MEDIUM: 4.6CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

Problem types

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Product status

Default status

unaffected

27.0.0 (custom) before 27.0.26

affected

Timeline

2025-06-11:

Initial Publication

Credits

This issue was discovered during an internal penetration test finder

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-4228 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-4228)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-4228)

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