CVE-2022-0026 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent software on Windows. An authenticated local user with file creation privileges in the Windows root directory can execute programs with elevated privileges. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.7 (MEDIUM), indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high privileges for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.4:hotfix:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.5:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.5:hotfix:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.6:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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