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 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
5.0 allunaffected
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent
6.1.* without content update 181 or lateraffected6.1.* with content update 181 or laterunaffected7.2.* without content update 181 or lateraffected
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent
7.2.* with content update 181 or laterunaffected7.3.* with content update 181 or laterunaffected7.3.* without content update 181 or lateraffected