CVE-2025-4228

4.6 mediumEPSS 0.2%

Medium (4.6). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 8% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-266
Published: 2025-06-13
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-4228

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