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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.7 Medium

CVE-2022-0025

Cortex XDR Agent: An Uncontrolled Search Path Element Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
palo_alto

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 the Cortex XDR agent when upgrading to Cortex XDR agent 7.7.0 on Windows; Cortex XDR agent 7.7.0 without content update 500 or a later version on Windows. This issue does not impact other platforms or other versions of the Cortex XDR 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

  • 7.7 to < 7.7.1.62043 without CU-500affected

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent

  • 7.7.* with CU-500unaffected
  • 7.6 allunaffected
  • 7.5 CE allunaffected
  • 7.4 allunaffected
  • 7.5 allunaffected
  • 6.1 allunaffected
  • 5.0 allunaffected

References