CVE-2022-0026

Cortex XDR Agent: Unintended Program Execution 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 Cortex XDR agent without content update 330 or a later content update version.

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-282 Improper Ownership Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cortex XDR AgentPalo Alto Networks	7.7.* without CU-330Affected 7.7.* with CU-330Not affected 7.6.* without CU-330Affected 7.6.* with CU-330Not affected 7.5 CE 7.5.* without CU-330Affected 7.5 CE 7.5.* with CU-330Not affected 7.4.* without CU-330Affected 7.4.* with CU-330Not affected 6.1.* without CU-330Affected 6.1.* with CU-330Not affected 7.5.* without CU-330Affected 7.5.* with CU-330Not affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0026

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