CVE-2026-0270 (GCVE-0-2026-0270)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-06-10 20:59
Modified
2026-06-12 03:55
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
A path traversal vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR engine software running on Linux allows an unauthenticated attacker on an adjacent network, with the ability to intercept and manipulate network response traffic via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, to write arbitrary files to the host.
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Impacted products
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Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR Version: 8.13   < 8.13.0.11
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