CVE-2025-4231

PAN-OS: Authenticated Admin Command Injection Vulnerability in the Management Web Interface

Severity
High 8.6
CVSS 4.0
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.010
60.3th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Published by the vendor
Published
Jun 12, 2025
Assigned by palo_alto

Description

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

Weakness: CWE-77

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Firewall / NGFW cna-assigner
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access SASE / SSE / Secure Web cna-assigner
Vendor-reported affected versions (3)
  • Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFW
  • Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS
  • Palo Alto Networks · Prisma Access

Credit

spcnvdr

Vendor remediation

Version Minor Version Suggested Solution PAN-OS 11.2 No action needed.PAN-OS 11.1 No action needed. PAN-OS 11.0* 11.0.0 through 11.0.2 Upgrade to 11.0.3 or later. PAN-OS 10.2 10.2.0 through 10.2.7 Upgrade to 10.2.8 or later. PAN-OS 10.1Upgrade to 10.2.8 or 11.0.3 or later.All older unsupported PAN-OS versions Upgrade to a supported fixed version. *PAN-OS 11.0 has reached EoL. We listed it here for completeness because a patch for PAN-OS 11.0 was released before it reached EoL. If you are still using any vulnerable EoL versions, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to a supported fixed PAN-OS version.