Palo Alto Cloud NGFW/PAN-OS/Prisma Access Management Web Interface missing authentication

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Palo Alto Cloud NGFW, PAN-OS and Prisma Access. Affected is an unknown function of the component Management Web Interface. Such manipulation leads to missing authentication. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-0108. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Palo Alto Cloud NGFW, PAN-OS and Prisma Access (unknown version). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Management Web Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-306. The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at security.paloaltonetworks.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-0108 since 12/21/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but an exploit is available.

It is declared as attacked. This issue was added on 02/18/2025 to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a due date of 03/11/2025:

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Firewall Software

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• Palo Alto

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• Cloud NGFW
• PAN-OS
• Prisma Access

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/

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