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CVE-2025-0125 PAN-OS: Improper Neutralization of Input in the Management Web Interface

Description

An improper input neutralization vulnerability in the management web interface of the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® software enables a malicious authenticated read-write administrator to impersonate another legitimate authenticated PAN-OS administrator.

The attacker must have network access to the management web interface to exploit this issue. You greatly reduce the risk of this issue by restricting access to the management web interface to only trusted internal IP addresses according to our recommended critical deployment guidelines.

This issue does not affect Cloud NGFW and all Prisma® Access instances.

Product Status

PAN-OS 11.0, PAN-OS 10.0, PAN-OS 9.1, PAN-OS 9.0, and earlier PAN-OS versions have reached their software end-of-life (EoL) dates and are no longer evaluated for vulnerabilities so we do not plan to fix this issue in these EoL versions. You should presume that these versions are affected.

Required Configuration for Exposure

The risk is greatest if you enabled access to the management interface from the internet or from any untrusted network either:

Directly; or

Through a dataplane interface that includes a management interface profile.

You greatly reduce the risk if you ensure that you allow only trusted internal IP addresses to access the management interface.

Use the following steps to identify your recently detected devices in our internet scans.

To find any assets that require remediation action, visit the Assets section of the Customer Support Portal a https://support.paloaltonetworks.com (Products → Assets → All Assets → Remediation Required).

Review the list of your devices that we discovered in our scans to have an internet-facing management interface. We tagged these devices with ‘PAN-SA-2024-0015’ and a last seen timestamp (in UTC). If you do not see any such devices listed, then our scan did not find any devices associated with your account that had an internet-facing management interface within the past three days.

Severity:MEDIUM, Suggested Urgency:MODERATE

The risk is highest when you allow access to the management interface from external IP addresses on the internet. Our recommendation is to remediate as soon as possible.
MEDIUM- CVSS-BT: 4.4 /CVSS-B: 6.9 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/S:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber)

You can greatly reduce the risk of exploitation by restricting access to a jump box that is the only system allowed to access the management interface. This will ensure that attacks can succeed only if they obtain privileged access through those specified IP addresses. We recommend remediating this vulnerability in your next scheduled maintenance cycle.
LOW- CVSS-BT: 1.9 /CVSS-B: 5.8 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/S:N/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber)

Exploitation Status

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

Weakness Type and Impact

CWE-83: Improper Neutralization of Script in Attributes in a Web Page

CAPEC-242 Code Injection

Solution

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. 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:

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