CVE-2025-4228

Severity CVSS v4.0:

MEDIUM

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

13/06/2025

Last modified:

16/06/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 4.0

CVSS: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 CVSS v4.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.60 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS: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

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Attack Requirements (AT): None
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Confidentiality (VC): Low
Integrity (VI): Low
Availability (VA): Low
Confidentiality (SC): None
Integrity (SI): None
Availability (SA): None
Automatable (AU): No
Recovery (R): User
Value Density (V): Diffuse
Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Moderate
Provider Urgency (U): Amber

Base Score 4.0

4.60

Severity 4.0

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-4228