🛡️ CVE-2023-0001
🟡 CVSS 6.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-319 NVD
6.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-319
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-02-08
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cortex-xdr-agent 7.5 7.5.101

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