CVE-2025-0105

Critical

Published: 11 January 2025

Published

11 January 2025

Modified

23 January 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0437 89.0th percentile

Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-0105 is a critical-severity External Control of File Name or Path (CWE-73) vulnerability in Paloaltonetworks Expedition. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique File Deletion (T1070.004); ranked in the top 11.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to File Deletion (T1070.004) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Directly mitigates the arbitrary file deletion vulnerability by validating inputs to prevent path traversal or external control of file paths as in CWE-73.

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match

prevent

Enforces logical access controls to block unauthenticated attackers from performing unauthorized file deletion operations on the host filesystem.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match

prevent

Limits the impact of exploitation by restricting the www-data process to least privilege, preventing deletion of critical files outside its minimal required scope.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1070.004 File Deletion Stealth

Adversaries may delete files left behind by the actions of their intrusion activity.

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T1485 Data Destruction Impact

Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources.

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Why these techniques?

Arbitrary file deletion vulnerability directly enables T1070.004 (File Deletion) for indicator removal and T1485 (Data Destruction) for integrity/availability impact.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

An arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition enables an unauthenticated attacker to delete arbitrary files accessible to the www-data user on the host filesystem.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-0105 is an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition. Published on 2025-01-11, it enables an unauthenticated attacker to delete arbitrary files accessible to the www-data user on the host filesystem. The issue carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H) and maps to CWE-73.

An unauthenticated attacker (PR:N) with network access (AV:N) to a vulnerable Expedition instance can exploit this flaw with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). Exploitation allows deletion of files writable by the www-data user, resulting in high integrity (I:H) and availability (A:H) impacts with no confidentiality impact (C:N) and unchanged scope (S:U).

Mitigation details are provided in Palo Alto Networks security advisory PAN-SA-2025-0001, available at https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/PAN-SA-2025-0001.