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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2022-0015

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-68c7-78j8-wc59

Published

January 13, 2022 12:01 AM

Last Modified

January 20, 2022 12:02 AM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 29, 2025 6:37 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.