CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-2049

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-12-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-12-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent on the Windows platform that allows an authenticated local Windows user to execute programs with SYSTEM privileges. This requires the user to have the privilege to create files in the Windows root directory. This issue impacts: All versions of Cortex XDR Agent 7.1 with content update 149 and earlier versions; All versions of Cortex XDR Agent 7.2 with content update 149 and earlier versions.

Affected configurations

• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent (>= 7.1.1 <= 7.1.3) • paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent (>= 7.2.1 <= 7.2.2) • paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.1 • paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References