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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2020-2049

Cortex XDR Agent: Improper control of loaded DLL leads to local privilege escalation

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
palo_alto

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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent

  • 7.1.* with content update 150unaffected
  • 7.1.* without content update 150affected
  • 7.2.* with content update 150unaffected
  • 7.2.* without content update 150affected

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent

  • 6.1.* with latest contentunaffected
  • 7.0.* with latest contentunaffected

References