CVE-2025-4231

Severity CVSS v4.0:

HIGH

Type:

CWE-77 Command Injection

Publication date:

13/06/2025

Last modified:

16/06/2025

Description

A command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® enables an authenticated administrative user to perform actions as the root user.<br /> <br /> The attacker must have network access to the management web interface and successfully authenticate to exploit this issue.<br /> <br /> Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Impact

Vector 4.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber CVSS v4.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.60 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber

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

Base Score 4.0

8.60

Severity 4.0

HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-4231