CVE-2022-0031

Cortex XSOAR: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in Cortex XSOAR Engine

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: Nov 9, 2022
Updated: May 1, 2025
Reserved: Dec 28, 2021

Description

A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR engine software running on a Linux operating system allows a local attacker with shell access to the engine to execute programs with elevated privileges.

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-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cortex XSOARPalo Alto Networks	6.9.0.0 to before 6.9.0.130766Affectedfrom 6.9.0.130766Not affected 6.8.0.0Affected 6.6.0.0Affected 6.5.0.0Affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0031

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