CVE-2022-0026

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

Published May 11, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 6.7 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

This issue is fixed in all Cortex XDR agent versions with content update 330 and later content update versions.


Vendor Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-15247 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.
History

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
palo_alto
Published
Updated
Sep 17, 2024, 1:26 AM
Reserved
Dec 28, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 11, 2022, 5:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:19 AM