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A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability exists in...

High severity Unreviewed Published Jan 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 3, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

A local privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent that enables an authenticated local user to execute programs with elevated privileges. This issue impacts: Cortex XDR agent 5.0 versions earlier than Cortex XDR agent 5.0.12; Cortex XDR agent 6.1 versions earlier than Cortex XDR agent 6.1.9.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 12, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 13, 2022
Last updated Feb 3, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-0015

GHSA ID

GHSA-68c7-78j8-wc59

Source code

No known source code

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