CVE-2026-0304

MediumCVSS 4.8/10Last modified Sep 11, 2026

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Broker VM enables an authenticated low privileged user with man-in-the-middle (MitM) access to execute code with root privileges on the Broker VM.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0 4.8/10CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

Weakness enumeration

CWE-88

Affected software

Source: the vendor's advisory (CNA). NVD analysis pending.

VendorProductVersions
Palo Alto NetworksCortex XDR Broker VM>= 20.0.96, < 32.0.52

References

Timeline

Published
Sep 10, 2026
Last modified
Sep 11, 2026
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

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