Cortex XDR Agent: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.2epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 97% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices enables a local user to execute programs with elevated privileges. However, execution does require the local user to successfully exploit a race condition, which makes this vulnerability difficult to exploit.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR Agent