Medium severity6.0NVD Advisory· Published Feb 8, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-0001
CVE-2023-0001
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.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:*:*:*:*:critical_environment:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:*:*:*:*:critical_environment:*:*:*range: >=7.5,<7.5.101
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 7.5
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References
1- security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-0001nvdVendor Advisory
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