CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-0026
6.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-05-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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-282
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.
Affected configurations
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 6.1
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 6.1.4
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 6.1.5
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 6.1.6
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 6.1.7
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 6.1.8
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 6.1.9
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.4.1
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.4.2
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.4.3
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.4.4
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.5
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.5.1
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.5.2
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.5.3
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.6.1
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.6.2
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.7
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.7.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-282 Improper Ownership Management weakness
References
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0026 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0026 Vendor Advisory