CVE-2025-2184Medium

CVE-2025-2184 Cortex XDR Broker VM: Secrets Shared Across Multiple Broker VM Images

Published
August 13, 2025
Last Modified
August 13, 2025

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CVE-2025-2184 →

📋 Description

A credential management flaw in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR® Broker VM causes different Broker VM images to share identical default credentials for internal services. Users knowing these default credentials could access internal services on other Broker VM installations. The attacker must have network access to the Broker VM to exploit this issue.

🎯 Affected products1

  • Cortex XDR Broker VM

✅ Remediation

If automatic upgrades are enabled for Broker VM, then no action is required at this time. If automatic upgrades are not enabled for Broker VM, then we recommend that you do so to ensure that you always have the latest security patches installed in your software. Workarounds and mitigations: No known workarounds exist for this issue.

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