CVE-2021-3049

LOW

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR <6.1.0 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An improper authorization vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR server enables an authenticated network-based attacker with investigation read permissions to download files from incident investigations of which they are aware but are not a part of. This issue impacts: All Cortex XSOAR 5.5.0 builds; Cortex XSOAR 6.1.0 builds earlier than 12099345. This issue does not impact Cortex XSOAR 6.2.0 versions.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3049

Scores

CVSS v3 2.6
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 29.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-285
Status published
Products (2)
paloaltonetworks/cortex_xsoar 5.5.0 (6 CPE variants)
paloaltonetworks/cortex_xsoar 6.1.0 (5 CPE variants)
Published Sep 08, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026