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Medium · 6.0 CVE-2023-0001 EUVD-2023-12106GHSA-9qr8-h5jr-2gmw

Cortex XDR Agent: Cleartext Exposure of Agent Admin Password

Published Feb 8, 2023 · Updated Aug 2, 2024 · Assigned by 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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent 7.5 – < 7.5.101-CE 7.9 All

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