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CVE-2022-0026

Cortex XDR Agent: Unintended Program Execution Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Palo Alto Networks / Cortex XDR Agentaffected 7.7.* without CU-330; unaffected 7.7.* with CU-330; affected 7.6.* without CU-330; unaffected 7.6.* with CU-330; affected 7.5 CE 7.5.* without CU-330; unaffected 7.5 CE 7.5.* with CU-330; affected 7.4.* without CU-330; unaffected 7.4.* with CU-330; affected 6.1.* without CU-330; unaffected 6.1.* with CU-330; affected 7.5.* without CU-330; unaffected 7.5.* with CU-330

CWE

CWE-282

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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