CVE-2023-0001

Cortex XDR Agent: Cleartext Exposure of Agent Admin Password

State: Published
Severity: 6.0 Medium
Published: Feb 8, 2023
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Oct 27, 2022

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.0 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cortex XDR agentPalo Alto Networks	7.9 AllNot affected 7.8 AllNot affected 7.5 to before 7.5.101-CEAffectedfrom 7.5.101-CENot affected 5.0 AllNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-0001

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