CVE-2023-3282
Cortex XSOAR: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability in Cortex XSOAR Engine
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- palo_alto
Description
A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR engine software running on a Linux operating system enables a local attacker to execute programs with elevated privileges if the attacker has shell access to the engine.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/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)
- 0.17% · top 93% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XSOAR
- affected 6.10 – < 6.10.0.250144
- unaffected 6.11
- unaffected 6.12
- unaffected 8
What to do
Solution: This issue is fixed in deployed Cortex XSOAR engines when an updated engine installer is created and used to upgrade the engine from Cortex XSOAR 6.10 build B250144 and all later builds of Cortex XSOAR.
Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.
References (1)
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
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- 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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