CVE-2023-0002

Cortex XDR Agent: Product Disruption by Local Windows User

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Feb 8, 2023
Updated: Mar 25, 2025
Reserved: Oct 27, 2022

Description

A problem with a protection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices allows a local user to execute privileged cytool commands that disable or uninstall the agent.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure

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 to before 5.0.12.22203Affectedfrom 5.0.12.22203Not affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-0002

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