CVE-2025-2182 — PAN-OS: Firewall Clusters using the MACsec Protocol Expose the Connectivity Association Key (CAK)

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks / Cloud NGFW	unaffected All before 3.2.449
Palo Alto Networks / PAN-OS	affected 11.2.0 before 11.2.8; affected 11.1.0 before 11.1.10; unaffected 10.2.0; unaffected 10.1.0
Palo Alto Networks / PAN-OS	unaffected All
Palo Alto Networks / Prisma Access	unaffected All

CWE

CWE-312

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-2182

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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