Cortex XDR Agent: Cleartext Exposure of Agent Admin Password

CVE-2023-0001
6MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor
Palo Alto Networks
Status
Cortex Xdr Agent
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 February 2023

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

Cortex XDR agent >= 7.9 All

Cortex XDR agent >= 7.8 All

Cortex XDR agent < 7.5.101-CE

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Risk change from: 6.7 to: 6 - (MEDIUM)

  • Initial publication

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Palo Alto Networks thanks Robert McCallum (M42D) for discovering and reporting this issue.
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