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Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published May 11, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-0026

CVE-2022-0026

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.

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Affected products

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  • Paloaltonetworks/Cortex Xdr Agent22 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.4:hotfix:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 21 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.4:hotfix:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.5:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.5:hotfix:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.6:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.7:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1.9:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:6.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.4.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.4.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.4.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.4.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.5.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.5.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.5.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.5:-:*:*:content_engine:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.6.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.6.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.7.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.7:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: < content update 330
    • (no CPE)range: 7.7.* without CU-330

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