02 Records
FEED: ACQUIRING
01 RecordSTATE: PUBLISHED
02 Description
CNA: palo_altoCortex XDR Agent: Unintended Program Execution Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
03 Exploitation and scoring
SRC: CISA, FIRST, NVD, RED HAT- 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
- 0.22% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Ranks above 12.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.7 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/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.
SCHEMA: 5.1
- Published
- 2022-05-11 16:30Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 01:26Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-12-28
- Assigning CNA
- palo_alto
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.7)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-282Improper Ownership ManagementClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 458dbee02a0cb42c213c989287ff9e49e56cf7ed8895a23e61bb5d36e65b4da7
05 Affected products
PAIRS: 1VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Agent7.7.* without CU-330, 7.6.* without CU-330, 7.5 CE 7.5.* without CU-330, 7.4.* without CU-330, 6.1.* without CU-330, 7.5.* without CU-330Windows SRC: CNA
This issue is fixed in all Cortex XDR agent versions with content update 330 and later content update versions.