CVE-2026-0270 (GCVE-0-2026-0270)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-10 20:59 – Updated: 2026-06-10 20:59
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Title
Cortex XSOAR: Path Traversal Vulnerability
Summary
A path traversal vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR engine software running on Linux allows an unauthenticated attacker on an adjacent network, with the ability to intercept and manipulate network response traffic via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, to write arbitrary files to the host.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR Affected: 8.13 , < 8.13.0.11 (custom)
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Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR Affected: 8.12.0 (custom)
Affected: 8.11.0 (custom)
Affected: 8.10.0 (custom)
Unaffected: 6.14.0 (custom)
Unaffected: 6.13.0 (custom)
Unaffected: 6.12.0 (custom)
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Date Public
2026-06-10 16:00
Credits
Palo Alto Networks thanks the internal security team for discovering and reporting this issue.
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