CVE-2025-4230

PAN-OS: Authenticated Admin Command Injection Vulnerability Through CLI

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Jun 12, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: May 2, 2025

Description

A command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables an authenticated administrator to bypass system restrictions and run arbitrary commands as a root user. To be able to exploit this issue, the user must have access to the PAN-OS CLI.

The security risk posed by this issue is significantly minimized when CLI access is restricted to a limited group of administrators.

Cloud NGFW and Prisma® Access are not affected by this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.4 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/R:U/V:D/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cloud NGFWPalo Alto Networks	All to before 6.3.3Not affectedfrom 6.3.3Not affected
PAN-OSPalo Alto Networks	11.2.0 to before 11.2.6Affectedfrom 11.2.6Not affected 11.1.0 to before 11.1.10Affectedfrom 11.1.10Not affected 10.2.0 to before 10.2.14Affectedfrom 10.2.14Not affected 10.1.0 to before 10.1.14-h15Affectedfrom 10.1.14-h15Not affected
Prisma AccessPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-4230vendor-advisory

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