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FKIE_CVE-2022-0031

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-11-09 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:19

Severity

6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR engine software running on a Linux operating system allows a local attacker with shell access to the engine to execute programs with elevated privileges.

References

	URL	Tags
	psirt@paloaltonetworks.com	https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0031	Vendor Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0031	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
paloaltonetworks	cortex_xsoar	6.5.0
paloaltonetworks	cortex_xsoar	6.5.0
paloaltonetworks	cortex_xsoar	6.5.0
paloaltonetworks	cortex_xsoar	6.6.0
paloaltonetworks	cortex_xsoar	6.6.0
paloaltonetworks	cortex_xsoar	6.6.0
paloaltonetworks	cortex_xsoar	6.6.0
paloaltonetworks	cortex_xsoar	6.8.0
linux	linux_kernel	-

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CVE-2022-0031 (GCVE-0-2022-0031)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-09 17:24 – Updated: 2025-05-01 19:10

Title

Cortex XSOAR: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in Cortex XSOAR Engine

Summary

Severity

6.7 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-01 19:10 UTC

CWE

CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Assigner

palo_alto mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0031

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Palo Alto Networks	Cortex XSOAR	Affected: 6.9.0.0 , < 6.9.0.130766 (custom) Affected: 6.8.0.0 Affected: 6.6.0.0 Affected: 6.5.0.0

Date Public

2022-11-09 17:00

Credits

Palo Alto Networks thanks Olivier Caillault for discovering and reporting this issue.

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