CVE-2025-4228Cortex XDR Broker VM: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
- 4.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.20%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 91% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By palo_alto
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium4.6 | 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 |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium4.6 | 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.20% · top 91% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR Broker VM
- affected 27.0.0 – < 27.0.26
What to do
Solution: This issue is fixed in Cortex XDR Broker VM 27.0.26, and all later Cortex XDR Broker VM versions. * If you enabled automatic upgrades for Broker VM, then no action is required at this time. * If you did not enable automatic upgrades, then we recommend that you do so for Broker VM to ensure that you always have the latest security patches installed in your software.
Workaround: No known workarounds or mitigations exist for this issue.
Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.
References
References1
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-18225 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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