CVE-2021-3049: Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xsoar

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xsoar: version 5.5.0 only; version 6.1.0 only

Published 2021-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.