CVE-2022-0026

MEDIUM 6.7CVE-2022-0026 · Published 11/05/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-0026 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.7) vulnerability affecting cortex xdr agent (paloaltonetworks).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.23%, higher than 13.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cortex xdr agent paloaltonetworks	`= 6.1= 6.1.4= 6.1.5= 6.1.6= 6.1.7= 6.1.8= 6.1.9= 7.4.1= 7.4.2= 7.4.3= 7.4.4= 7.5= 7.5.1= 7.5.2= 7.5.3= 7.6.1= 7.6.2= 7.7= 7.7.1`	No fix yet

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.

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2022-0026 · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

cortex xdr agent

paloaltonetworks

= 6.1= 6.1.4= 6.1.5= 6.1.6= 6.1.7= 6.1.8= 6.1.9= 7.4.1= 7.4.2= 7.4.3= 7.4.4= 7.5= 7.5.1= 7.5.2= 7.5.3= 7.6.1= 7.6.2= 7.7= 7.7.1

No fix yet

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