CVE-2025-2184: Cortex XDR Broker VM: Secrets Shared Across Multiple Broker VM Images
Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.
CVE record, CISA KEV and EPSS as of 2026-10-18.
CVEs like this one computed, by meaning
What to do now held facts and links
- Upgrade to 28.0.52 or later CVE record
- Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
- Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.
What it is stated by the CNA
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.
- weakness
- CWE-1392: Use of Default Credentials
- affected
- Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Broker VM
- versions
- No affected-version range in held sources.
- fixed in
- 28.0.52
- severity
- 5.3 CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:Y/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber
- assigned by
- palo_alto
- published
- 2025-08-13
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Exploit code held, dated
- exploit code
- None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.
What moved held, dated
| date | EPSS | event |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2025 | 0.00018 | |
| 19 Aug 2025 | 0.00023 | |
| 14 Sep 2025 | 0.00026 | |
| 20 Oct 2025 | 0.00027 | |
| 13 Dec 2025 | 0.00034 | |
| 9 Jan 2026 | 0.00022 | |
| 21 Jan 2026 | 0.00026 | |
| 9 Mar 2026 | 0.00027 | |
| 19 Mar 2026 | 0.00026 | |
| 18 Apr 2026 | 0.00028 | |
| 29 Apr 2026 | 0.00035 | |
| 9 May 2026 | 0.00036 | |
| 9 Jun 2026 | 0.00123 | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 0.00163 | scoring model v2026.06.15 |
| 14 Jul 2026 | 0.00175 | |
| 8 Aug 2026 | 0.00174 |
16 observations held. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the measurement was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed.
Outside the record researched, cited
This section reads the record's references and adds cited findings from outside it. It needs an account. Everything above is held facts and is complete without it.
What would change this brief held, dated
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
- exploit probability
- 0.00 on 2026-08-08 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
- fix
- Held: 28.0.52. A newer fix from the CNA or OSV changes this brief.
How to check this
Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:
SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2025-2184', '2026-10-31T23:59:59.999999Z', now());