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CVE-2022-0026

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.7 Published: 2022-05-11 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Paloaltonetworks Cortex Xdr AgentMicrosoft Windows

Weakness Type

CWE-282, NVD-CWE-Other

References