CVE-2023-0001

Cortex XDR Agent: Cleartext Exposure of Agent Admin Password

Published Feb 8, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 6 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD 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.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00397}

epss

{'score': 0.00382}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
palo_alto
Published
Updated
Aug 2, 2024, 4:54 AM
Reserved
Oct 27, 2022, 6:47 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 8, 2023, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 5:24 AM