CVE-2025-4228CWE-266

Cortex XDR Broker VM: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

Medium · published June 12, 2025

CVSS v4.0
4.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
4.6 · MEDIUM
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
EPSS
0.00188 · 8.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Published
2025-06-12T23:41Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JUN 23:41Z
    Cortex XDR Broker VM: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
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