01 Record
CVE-2020-2049
Cortex XDR Agent: Improper control of loaded DLL leads to local privilege escalation
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: palo_alto
CNA base score7.8 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
02 Description
Cortex XDR Agent: Improper control of loaded DLL leads to local privilege escalation
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 27.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-12-09 18:00Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 02:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-12-04
- Assigning CNA
- palo_alto
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.8)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427Uncontrolled Search Path ElementBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 94fa22302e1a36dae7b2960aa527fdd616bfb101c6415f23e77f767acdea24c2
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Agent7.1.* without content update 150, 7.2.* without content update 150Windows
06 References
- security.paloaltonetworks.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2049
07 Remediation
Cortex XDR Agent content update version 150 and all later content update versions resolve this issue for Cortex XDR Agent 7.1 and Cortex XDR Agent 7.2 versions. Cortex XDR Agent 6.1 and Cortex XDR Agent 7.0 are not impacted with the latest content update. Content updates are automatically applied for the agent. A Cortex XDR Agent version upgrade is not required to resolve this issue.