CVE-2025-0115 PAN-OS: Authenticated Admin File Read Vulnerability in PAN-OS CLI
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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.
🎯 Affected products3
- PAN-OS
- Cloud NGFW
- Prisma Access
✅ Remediation
This issue is fixed in PAN-OS 10.1.14-h11, PAN-OS 10.2.10-h18, 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 11.2.2 Upgrade to 11.2.3 or later PAN-OS 11.1 11.1.0 through 11.1.4 Upgrade to 11.1.4-h17 or 11.1.5 or later PAN-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 10.2.10 Upgrade to 10.2.10-h18 or 10.2.11 or later PAN-OS 10.1 10.1.0 through 10.1.14 Upgrade to 10.1.14-h11 or later All other older Upgrade to a supported fixed version. unsupported PAN-OS versions Workarounds and mitigations: 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)