CVE-2025-0116

PAN-OS: Firewall Denial of Service (DoS) Using a Specially Crafted LLDP Frame

State: Published
Severity: 6.8 Medium
Published: Mar 12, 2025
Updated: Mar 17, 2025
Reserved: Dec 20, 2024

Description

A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software causes the firewall to unexpectedly reboot when processing a specially crafted LLDP frame sent by an unauthenticated adjacent attacker. Repeated attempts to initiate this condition causes the firewall to enter maintenance mode.

This issue does not apply to Cloud NGFWs or Prisma Access software.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.8 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks	11.2.0 to before 11.2.5Affectedfrom 11.2.5Not affected 11.1.0 to before 11.1.8Affectedfrom 11.1.8Not affected 10.2.0 to before 10.2.14Affectedfrom 10.2.14Not affectedfrom 10.2.13-h5Not affected 10.1.0 to before 10.1.14-h11Affectedfrom 10.1.14-h11Not affected
Cloud NGFWPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected
Prisma AccessPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0116vendor-advisory

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