CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-0015

7.8 HIGH Published 2022-01-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-01-12
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 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])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent that enables an authenticated local user to execute programs with elevated privileges. This issue impacts: Cortex XDR agent 5.0 versions earlier than Cortex XDR agent 5.0.12; Cortex XDR agent 6.1 versions earlier than Cortex XDR agent 6.1.9.

Affected configurations

• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent (>= 5.0 < 5.0.12) • paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent (>= 6.1 < 6.1.9)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References