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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.0 Medium

CVE-2026-0230

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Administrator can disable the agent on macOS

Description

A problem with a protection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on macOS allows a local administrator to disable the agent. This issue could be leveraged by malware to perform malicious activity without detection.

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

  • 9.1.0unaffected
  • 9.0.0unaffected
  • 8.9.0unaffected
  • 8.7-CE to < 8.7.101-CEaffected
  • 8.3-CE to < 8.3.102-CEaffected

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