A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows platforms that enables an authenticated local Windows user to execute programs with SYSTEM privileges. Exploiting this vulnerability requires the user to have file creation privilege in the Windows root directory (such as C:\). This issue impacts: All versions of Cortex XDR agent 6.1 without content update 181 or a later version; All versions of Cortex XDR agent 7.2 without content update 181 or a later version; All versions of Cortex XDR agent 7.3 without content update 181 or a later version. Cortex XDR agent 5.0 versions are not impacted by this issue. Content updates are required to resolve this issue and are automatically applied for the agent.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
References
Link | Providers |
---|---|
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3042 |
History
No history.
MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: palo_alto
Published: 2021-07-15T16:45:12.285628Z
Updated: 2024-09-17T04:18:46.587Z
Reserved: 2021-01-06T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-3042
Vulnrichment
No data.
NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2021-07-15T17:15:08.717
Modified: 2021-07-27T14:56:23.447
Link: CVE-2021-3042
Redhat
No data.