CVE-2025-4231

PAN-OS: Authenticated Admin Command Injection Vulnerability in the Management Web Interface

State: Published
Severity: 8.6 High
Published: Jun 12, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: May 2, 2025

Description

A command injection vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® enables an authenticated administrative user to perform actions as the root user.

The attacker must have network access to the management web interface and successfully authenticate to exploit this issue.

Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.6 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('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	11.2.0Not affected 11.1.0Not affected 11.0.0 to before 11.0.3Affectedfrom 11.0.3Not affected 10.2.0 to before 10.2.8Affectedfrom 10.2.8Not affected 10.1.0Affected
Prisma AccessPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-4231vendor-advisory

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