Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 8, 2023· Updated Aug 2, 2024
Cortex XDR Agent: Cleartext Exposure of Agent Admin Password
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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- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 7.5
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