Palo Alto Cortex XDR Broker VM up to 31.0.57 privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto Cortex XDR Broker VM up to 31.0.57. It has been declared as very critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Broker VM. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-0276. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Palo Alto Cortex XDR Broker VM up to 31.0.57. It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Broker VM. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex® XDR Broker VM enables a locally authenticated user to perform actions as the root user.

The advisory is available at security.paloaltonetworks.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-0276 since 11/03/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/09/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 31.0.58 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Palo Alto

Name

• Cortex XDR Broker VM

Version

• 31.0.0
• 31.0.1
• 31.0.2
• 31.0.3
• 31.0.4
• 31.0.5
• 31.0.6
• 31.0.7
• 31.0.8
• 31.0.9
• 31.0.10
• 31.0.11
• 31.0.12
• 31.0.13
• 31.0.14
• 31.0.15
• 31.0.16
• 31.0.17
• 31.0.18
• 31.0.19
• 31.0.20
• 31.0.21
• 31.0.22
• 31.0.23
• 31.0.24
• 31.0.25
• 31.0.26
• 31.0.27
• 31.0.28
• 31.0.29
• 31.0.30
• 31.0.31
• 31.0.32
• 31.0.33
• 31.0.34
• 31.0.35
• 31.0.36
• 31.0.37
• 31.0.38
• 31.0.39
• 31.0.40
• 31.0.41
• 31.0.42
• 31.0.43
• 31.0.44
• 31.0.45
• 31.0.46
• 31.0.47
• 31.0.48
• 31.0.49
• 31.0.50
• 31.0.51
• 31.0.52
• 31.0.53
• 31.0.54
• 31.0.55
• 31.0.56
• 31.0.57

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/

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