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GHSA-3GCP-58M3-9FP5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-13 00:33 – Updated: 2025-06-13 00:33

Details

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.

Severity ?

4.6 (Medium)


                  
                    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

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CVE-2025-4228 (GCVE-0-2025-4228)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-12 23:41 – Updated: 2025-06-14 03:56

Summary

Severity ?

4.6 (Medium)


                        
                          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

CWE

CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Assigner

palo_alto

References

URL

Tags

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

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Palo Alto Networks	Cortex XDR Broker VM	Affected: 27.0.0 , < 27.0.26 (custom)

Credits

This issue was discovered during an internal penetration test

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GHSA-3GCP-58M3-9FP5

CVE-2025-4228 (GCVE-0-2025-4228)

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