CVE-2026-0270 | THREATINT

Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-03 | Published 2026-06-10 | Updated 2026-06-10 | Assigner palo_alto

MEDIUM: 4.8CVSS: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

Problem types

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

Default status

unaffected

8.13 (custom) before 8.13.0.11

affected

Default status

unaffected

8.12.0 (custom)

affected

8.11.0 (custom)

affected

8.10.0 (custom)

affected

6.14.0 (custom)

unaffected

6.13.0 (custom)

unaffected

6.12.0 (custom)

unaffected

Timeline

2026-06-10:

Initial publication

Credits

Palo Alto Networks thanks the internal security team for discovering and reporting this issue. finder

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0270 vendor-advisory

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4559 (CVE-2007-4559: Python tarfile module path traversal) related third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-0270)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-0270)

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