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A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Palo...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent on the Windows platform that allows an authenticated local Windows user to execute programs with SYSTEM privileges. This requires the user to have the privilege to create files in the Windows root directory. This issue impacts: All versions of Cortex XDR Agent 7.1 with content update 149 and earlier versions; All versions of Cortex XDR Agent 7.2 with content update 149 and earlier versions.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 9, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-2049

GHSA ID

GHSA-pjv3-5grh-rmm4

Source code

No known source code

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