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GHSA-Q2C9-RXG9-V5JF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-12 00:01 – Updated: 2022-05-24 00:00

Details

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.

Severity ?

6.7 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2022-0026 (GCVE-0-2022-0026)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-11 16:30 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:26

Summary

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.

Severity ?

6.7 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-282 - Improper Ownership Management

Assigner

palo_alto

References

URL

Tags

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0026

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Palo Alto Networks	Cortex XDR Agent	Affected: 7.7.* without CU-330 Unaffected: 7.7.* with CU-330 Affected: 7.6.* without CU-330 Unaffected: 7.6.* with CU-330 Affected: 7.5 CE 7.5.* without CU-330 Unaffected: 7.5 CE 7.5.* with CU-330 Affected: 7.4.* without CU-330 Unaffected: 7.4.* with CU-330 Affected: 6.1.* without CU-330 Unaffected: 6.1.* with CU-330 Affected: 7.5.* without CU-330 Unaffected: 7.5.* with CU-330

Credits

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

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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CVE-2022-0026 (GCVE-0-2022-0026)

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