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CISA KEV · ACTIVELY EXPLOITED
MEDIUM severity

CVE-2025-0111 — PAN-OS

MEDIUM

CVE-2025-0111 is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.5) CWE-73 vulnerability in paloaltonetworks pan-os. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-02-20) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.

An authenticated file read vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to read files…

Published
Updated
Affected
1 product
Patched
See advisory
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Oct 23, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Actively exploited in the wild

  • Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-02-20. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-03-13.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2025-0111.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
2.0%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk+0.07%
Lower risk than most CVEs81th percentile — riskier than 81% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
1.41%2.33%3.25%4.18%3.7%3.7%1.9%2.0%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2025-0111 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Description

An authenticated file read vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to read files on the PAN-OS filesystem that are readable by the “nobody” user.

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

1 product · 48 configurations
OS
pan-ospaloaltonetworks
≥ 11.2.0 && < 11.2.4
8 versions
10.1.1410.2.710.2.810.2.910.2.1210.2.1311.1.611.2.4

Detection & mitigation playbook

Vendor / appliance

  1. Detect

    Inventory every paloaltonetworks pan-os deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.

  2. Fix

    Apply the paloaltonetworks pan-os security patch or hotfix for CVE-2025-0111 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.

Frequently Asked Questions

An authenticated file read vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated attacker with network access to the management web interface to read files on the PAN-OS filesystem that are readable by the “nobody” user. 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
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Actively Exploited: CVE-2025-0111: PAN-OS (Medium 6.5)