CVE-2025-0108 — PAN-OS
CVE-2025-0108 is a Missing Authentication vulnerability in paloaltonetworks pan-os. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-02-18) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
An authentication bypass in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to bypass the authentication…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-02-18. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-03-11.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2025-0108.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
Description
An authentication bypass in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to bypass the authentication otherwise required by the PAN-OS management web interface and invoke certain PHP scripts. While invoking these PHP scripts does not enable remote code execution, it can negatively impact integrity and confidentiality of PAN-OS.
You can 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 best practices 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 software.
Affected Products
pan-ospaloaltonetworksResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every paloaltonetworks pan-os deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2025-0108 yet — track the paloaltonetworks pan-os advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2025-0108
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2025-0108 -u https://target- Template
- PAN-OS Management Interface - Path Confusion to Authentication Bypass
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can exploit path confusion between Nginx and Apache to bypass authentication completely, gaining unauthorized access to the PAN-OS management interface and potentially compromising the entire firewall infrastructure.
- Remediation
- Upgrade to the patched version of PAN-OS as specified in the vendor security advisory.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (halencarjunior, ritikchaddha), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2025-0108 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.