CVE-2022-0025

published 2022-05-11

CVE-2022-0025: A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent software on Windows that enables an authenticated local user with…

Priority P4 30 medium 6.7 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR H UI N S U C H I H A H

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

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
palo_alto_networks	cortex_xdr_agent	>= 7.7 < 7.7.1.62043 without CU-500	7.7.1.62043 without CU-500
paloalto	cortex_xdr_agent	—	—
paloaltonetworks	cortex_xdr_agent	>= 7.7.0 < 7.7.1.62043	7.7.1.62043

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.7 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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