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.
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Solution

This issue is fixed in all Cortex XDR agent versions with content update 330 and later content update versions.


Workaround

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: palo_alto

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:26:10.764Z

Reserved: 2021-12-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-0026

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Status : Modified

Published: 2022-05-11T17:15:09.287

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:37:50.823

Link: CVE-2022-0026

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