CVE-2025-4228 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact Low

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact Low

Vulnerable System Availability Impact Low

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

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

History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00016}`	epss `{'score': 0.00017}`

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title		Cortex XDR Broker VM: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
Weaknesses		CWE-266
References		https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-4228
Metrics		cvssV4_0 `{'score': 4.6, 'vector': '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'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: palo_alto

Published: 2025-06-12T23:41:37.071Z

Updated: 2025-06-14T03:56:20.140Z

Reserved: 2025-05-02T19:10:41.205Z

Link: CVE-2025-4228

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-06-13T14:04:29.938Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-06-13T00:15:23.233

Modified: 2025-06-16T12:32:18.840

Link: CVE-2025-4228

Redhat

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