CVE-2022-0025

Summary

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 the Cortex XDR agent when upgrading to Cortex XDR agent 7.7.0 on Windows; Cortex XDR agent 7.7.0 without content update 500 or a later version on Windows. This issue does not impact other platforms or other versions of the Cortex XDR agent.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Agent7.7 < 7.7.1.62043 without CU-500affected
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Agent7.7.* with CU-500unaffected
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Agent7.6 allunaffected
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Agent7.5 CE allunaffected
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Agent7.4 allunaffected
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Agent7.5 allunaffected
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Agent6.1 allunaffected
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Agent5.0 allunaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-427: CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds for this issue.

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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