CVE-2026-0232

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Administrator can disable the agent on Windows

State: Published
Severity: 4.0 Medium
Published: Apr 13, 2026
Updated: Apr 13, 2026
Reserved: Nov 3, 2025

Description

A problem with a protection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows allows a local Windows administrator to disable the agent. This issue may be leveraged by malware to perform malicious activity without detection.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.0 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-15 External Control of System or Configuration Setting

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cortex XDR AgentPalo Alto Networks	9.1.0 to before 5.10.14Not affectedfrom 5.10.14Not affected 9.0Not affected 8.9Not affected 8.7-CENot affected
Cortex XDR AgentPalo Alto Networks	9.0 to before 9.0.1Affectedfrom 9.0.1Not affected 8.9 to before 8.9.1Affectedfrom 8.9.1Not affected 8.7-CE to before 8.7.101-CEAffectedfrom 8.7.101-CENot affected 8.3-CE to before 8.3-CE-CU-2120Affectedfrom 8.3-CENot affected 7.9-CE to before 7.9-CE-CU-2120Affectedfrom 7.9-CENot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0232vendor-advisory

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