Riskcovery

CVE-2025-0121

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Windows User Can Crash the Agent

State
Published
Severity
6.8 Medium
Published
Apr 11, 2025
Updated
Apr 11, 2025
Reserved
Dec 20, 2024

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Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex® XDR agent on Windows devices allows a low-privileged local Windows user to crash the agent. Additionally, malware can use this vulnerability to perform malicious activity without Cortex XDR being able to detect it.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.8 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amberpalo_alto

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Cortex XDR AgentPalo Alto Networks
  • 8.7.0 to before 6.3.3Not affectedfrom 6.3.3Not affected
  • 8.6.0 to before 8.6.1Affectedfrom 8.6.1Not affected
  • 8.5.0 to before 8.5.2Affectedfrom 8.5.2Not affected
  • 8.3-CE to before 8.3.101-CE HFAffectedfrom 8.3.101-CE HFNot affected
  • 7.9-CE to before 7.9.103-CE HFAffectedfrom 7.9.103-CE HFNot affected

References

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