Cortex XDR Agent: Unintended Program Execution Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.7epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 88% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR Agent