Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
4.6
AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex® XDR Broker VM allows an authenticated administrative user to execute certain files available within the Broker VM and escalate their privileges to root.

Remedy

No known workarounds or mitigations exist for this issue.

Remedy

This issue is fixed in Cortex XDR Broker VM 27.0.26, and all later Cortex XDR Broker VM versions. * If you enabled automatic upgrades for Broker VM, then no action is required at this time. * If you did not enable automatic upgrades, then we recommend that you do so for Broker VM to ensure that you always have the latest security patches installed in your software.
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