CVE-2025-2181 (GCVE-0-2025-2181)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-13 17:03 – Updated: 2025-08-13 20:31
VLAI?
Summary
A sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Checkov by Prisma® Cloud can result in the cleartext exposure of Prisma Cloud access keys in Checkov's output.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
CWE
  • CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Palo Alto Networks Checkov by Prisma Cloud Affected: 3.2.0 , < 3.2.449 (custom)
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Credits
Shashank Chaurasia
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