CVE-2022-0026

Description

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
6.7
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.037

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Improper Ownership Management Vulnerability (CVE-2022-0026)NCM

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234