CVE-2022-0025

Cortex XDR Agent: An Uncontrolled Search Path Element Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: May 11, 2022
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Dec 28, 2021

Description

A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent software on Windows that enables an authenticated local user with file creation privilege in the Windows root directory (such as C:\) to execute a program with elevated privileges. This issue impacts: All versions of the Cortex XDR agent when upgrading to Cortex XDR agent 7.7.0 on Windows; Cortex XDR agent 7.7.0 without content update 500 or a later version on Windows. This issue does not impact other platforms or other versions of the Cortex XDR agent.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cortex XDR AgentPalo Alto Networks	7.7 to before 7.7.1.62043 without CU-500Affectedfrom 7.7.1.62043Not affected
Cortex XDR AgentPalo Alto Networks	7.7.* with CU-500Not affected 7.6 allNot affected 7.5 CE allNot affected 7.4 allNot affected 7.5 allNot affected 6.1 allNot affected 5.0 allNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0025

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