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CVE-2025-2182

PAN-OS: Firewall Clusters using the MACsec Protocol Expose the Connectivity Association Key (CAK)

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 5.6
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
palo_alto
NVD status
Deferred

Description

A problem with the implementation of the MACsec protocol in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS® results in the cleartext exposure of the connectivity association key (CAK). This issue is only applicable to PA-7500 Series devices which are in an NGFW cluster. A user who possesses this key can read messages being sent between devices in a NGFW Cluster. There is no impact in non-clustered firewalls or clusters of firewalls that do not enable MACsec.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.6CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amberpalo_alto
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.6CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:AmberNVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks · Cloud NGFWunaffected All < 3.2.449
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OSaffected 11.2.0 < 11.2.8 ; affected 11.1.0 < 11.1.10 ; unaffected 10.2.0 ; unaffected 10.1.0
Palo Alto Networks · PAN-OSunaffected All
Palo Alto Networks · Prisma Accessunaffected All

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD