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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.0 Medium

CVE-2023-0001

Cortex XDR Agent: Cleartext Exposure of Agent Admin Password

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
palo_alto

Description

An information exposure vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices allows a local system administrator to disclose the admin password for the agent in cleartext, which bad actors can then use to execute privileged cytool commands that disable or uninstall the agent.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent

Default version status: unaffected

  • 7.9 Allunaffected
  • 7.8 Allunaffected
  • 7.5 to < 7.5.101-CEaffected
  • 5.0 Allunaffected

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