CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-3042

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-07-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-07-15
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 (PE) vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows platforms that enables an authenticated local Windows user to execute programs with SYSTEM privileges. Exploiting this vulnerability requires the user to have file creation privilege in the Windows root directory (such as C:\). This issue impacts: All versions of Cortex XDR agent 6.1 without content update 181 or a later version; All versions of Cortex XDR agent 7.2 without content update 181 or a later version; All versions of Cortex XDR agent 7.3 without content update 181 or a later version. Cortex XDR agent 5.0 versions are not impacted by this issue. Content updates are required to resolve this issue and are automatically applied for the agent.

Affected configurations

• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 6.1 • paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.2 • paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References