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 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.* without CU-330affected7.7.* with CU-330unaffected7.6.* without CU-330affected7.6.* with CU-330unaffected7.5 CE 7.5.* without CU-330affected7.5 CE 7.5.* with CU-330unaffected7.4.* without CU-330affected7.4.* with CU-330unaffected6.1.* without CU-330affected6.1.* with CU-330unaffected7.5.* without CU-330affected7.5.* with CU-330unaffected