CVE-2022-0026
Cortex XDR Agent: Unintended Program Execution Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- palo_alto
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 87% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.7.
Weakness
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR Agent
- affected 7.7.* without CU-330
- unaffected 7.7.* with CU-330
- affected 7.6.* without CU-330
- unaffected 7.6.* with CU-330
- affected 7.5 CE 7.5.* without CU-330
- unaffected 7.5 CE 7.5.* with CU-330
- affected 7.4.* without CU-330
- unaffected 7.4.* with CU-330
- affected 6.1.* without CU-330
- unaffected 6.1.* with CU-330
- affected 7.5.* without CU-330
- unaffected 7.5.* with CU-330
What to do
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.
Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.
References (1)
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0026 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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