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CVE record · CVE-2020-2049

Cortex XDR Agent: Improper control of loaded DLL leads to local privilege escalation

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0034 · 28th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: palo_alto) at 9 Dec 2020, 18:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent
  • unaffected 7.1.* with content update 150
  • affected 7.1.* without content update 150
  • unaffected 7.2.* with content update 150
  • affected 7.2.* without content update 150
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent
  • unaffected 6.1.* with latest content
  • unaffected 7.0.* with latest content
Identifiers
CVE-2020-2049
CNA
palo_alto
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-427
Tags
Published
9 Dec 2020
Updated
17 Sept 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (palo_alto)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0034, the 28th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 9 Dec 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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