PAN-OS: Authenticated Admin File Read Vulnerability in PAN-OS CLI

Description

A vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated admin on the PAN-OS CLI to read arbitrary files. The attacker must have network access to the management interface (web, SSH, console, or telnet) and successfully authenticate to exploit this issue. You can greatly reduce the risk of this issue by restricting access to the management interface to only trusted users and internal IP addresses according to our recommended critical deployment guidelines https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-access-of-your-palo/ba-p/464431 . This issue does not affect Cloud NGFW or Prisma Access.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Weakness

• CWE-41: Improper Resolution of Path Equivalence (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-41 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OS

  • affected 11.2.0 – < 11.2.3
  • affected 11.1.0 – < 11.1.5
  • affected 11.0.0 – < 11.0.6
  • affected 10.2.0 – < 10.2.11
  • affected 10.1.0 – < 10.1.14-h11

• Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFW

  • unaffected All

• Palo Alto Networks · Prisma Access

  • unaffected All

What to do

Solution: This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 10.1.14-h11, PAN-OS 10.2.11, PAN-OS 11.0.6, PAN-OS 11.1.5, PAN-OS 11.2.3, and all later PAN-OS versions. Version Minor Version Suggested Solution PAN-OS 11.2 11.2.0 through 11.2.2Upgrade to 11.2.3 or later PAN-OS 11.111.1.0 through 11.1.4 Upgrade to 11.1.5 or laterPAN-OS 11.0 11.0.0 through 11.0.5 Upgrade to 11.0.6 or later PAN-OS 10.2 10.2.0 through 10.2.10Upgrade to 10.2.11 or laterPAN-OS 10.1 10.1.0 through 10.1.14 Upgrade to 10.1.14-h11 or later All other older unsupported PAN-OS versions Upgrade to a supported fixed version.

Workaround: Recommended mitigation—The vast majority of firewalls already follow Palo Alto Networks and industry best practices. However, if you have not already, we strongly recommend that you secure access to your management interface according to our critical deployment guidelines https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-access-of-your-palo/ba-p/464431 . Specifically, you should restrict management interface access to only trusted internal IP addresses. Review information about how to secure management access to your Palo Alto Networks firewalls: * Palo Alto Networks LIVEcommunity article:  https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-ac... https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/community-blogs/tips-amp-tricks-how-to-secure-the-management-access-of-your-palo/ba-p/464431 * Palo Alto Networks official and detailed technical documentation: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices/10-1/administrative-access-best-practices/administr... https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices/10-1/administrative-access-best-practices/administrative-access-best-practices/deploy-administrative-access-best-practices

Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.

References (1)

• https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0115 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 17 Mar 2025, 15:22 UTC.