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CVE-2025-0111: Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS File Read Vulnerability

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS contains an external control of file name or path vulnerability. Successful exploitation 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.

CVE-2025-0111

Exploited in the wild. Fix this first.

CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-02-20: attackers are using it right now.

CISA KEV
Listed
Added 2025-02-20 · federal fix-by 2025-03-13
EPSS (30 days)
2.0%
Higher than 81% of CVEs · 2026-11-01
CVSS
No score

What CISA says

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS File Read Vulnerability

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

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How to check if you are exposed to CVE-2025-0111

  1. Find every Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS system you or your clients run, including ones exposed to the internet. Those come first: CISA only lists flaws attackers are already using.
  2. Compare each version with the fixed versions in the vendor advisory below. Where no fix exists yet, apply the vendor’s mitigation or take the system off the internet.
  3. Run a credentialed vulnerability scan to catch the systems you missed, then check that the next scan no longer reports CVE-2025-0111.

US federal agencies had to fix this by 2025-03-13. Everyone else should treat that deadline as a guide: if it has passed, this is overdue.

Timeline

  1. · Added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
  2. · Fix-by date for US federal agencies, passed 598 days ago

Vendor advisories and fixes

Weakness type

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Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (version 2026.10.30); EPSS data from FIRST.org; CVSS and descriptions from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Checked 2026-11-01. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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