Cortex XDR Agent: Cleartext Exposure of Agent Admin Password
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Palo Alto Networks | Cortex XDR agent | unaffected |
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Vendor Solution
This issue is fixed in Cortex XDR agent 7.5.101-CE and all later supported Cortex XDR agent versions. (Cortex XDR agent 5.0 is not impacted.) After you upgrade to a fixed version of the Cortex XDR agent, you must change the agent admin password in case it was already disclosed to users.
Vendor Workaround
There are no known workarounds for this issue.
| Source | ID | Title |
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EUVD |
EUVD-2023-12106 | 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. |
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.213% probability within 30 days)
Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.
| Link | Providers |
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| https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-0001 |
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