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GHSA-VFC6-3MW5-MV5Q

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

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 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.

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-2022-0025 (GCVE-0-2022-0025)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-11 16:30 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:42

Title

Cortex XDR Agent: An Uncontrolled Search Path Element Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

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 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.

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-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Assigner

palo_alto mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0025	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Palo Alto Networks	Cortex XDR Agent	Affected: 7.7 , < 7.7.1.62043 without CU-500 (custom)
Palo Alto Networks	Cortex XDR Agent	Unaffected: 7.7.* with CU-500 Unaffected: 7.6 all Unaffected: 7.5 CE all Unaffected: 7.4 all Unaffected: 7.5 all Unaffected: 6.1 all Unaffected: 5.0 all

Date Public

2022-05-11 00:00

Credits

Palo Alto Networks thanks its customers and external security researchers for discovering and reporting this issue.

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