github - ghsa-3gcp-58m3-9fp5

ghsa-3gcp-58m3-9fp5

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-06-13 00:33

Modified

2025-06-13 00:33

Severity ?

4.6 (Medium) - 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

Details

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.

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CVE-2025-4228 (GCVE-0-2025-4228)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-06-12 23:41

Modified

2025-06-14 03:56

Severity ?

4.6 (Medium) - 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

CWE

CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-4228	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Palo Alto Networks	Cortex XDR Broker VM	Version: 27.0.0 < 27.0.26

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