CVE-2022-0026 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2022-0026

Cortex XDR Agent: Unintended Program Execution Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Palo Alto Networks thanks Xavier DANEST of Decathlon and Yasser Alhazmi for discovering and reporting this issue.

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Affected Vendor

Palo Alto Networks

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Affected Software

Cortex XDR Agent
Vulnerable Versions:
7.7.* without CU-330, 7.7.* with CU-330, 7.6.* without CU-330, 7.6.* with CU-330, 7.5 CE 7.5.* without CU-330, 7.5 CE 7.5.* with CU-330, 7.4.* without CU-330, 7.4.* with CU-330, 6.1.* without CU-330, 6.1.* with CU-330, 7.5.* without CU-330, 7.5.* with CU-330

Timeline

Official Publish: May 11th, 2022
Last Modified: September 17th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-282

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.