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CVE-2022-0026

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CVE-2022-0026

Published: May 11, 2022

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.7

MEDIUM

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.

VendorProductVersions

Palo Alto Networks

Cortex XDR Agent

affected
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

+7 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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