Cortex XDR Agent: Product Disruption by Local Windows User
CVE-2023-0002

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

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

Summary

A problem with a protection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices allows a local user to execute privileged cytool commands that disable or uninstall the agent.

Affected Version(s)

Cortex XDR agent Windows 7.5 < 7.5.101-CE

Cortex XDR agent Windows 5.0 < 5.0.12.22203

Cortex XDR agent Windows 7.9 All

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-0002

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Palo Alto Networks thanks Fernando Romero de la Morena and Robert McCallum (M42D) for discovering and reporting this issue.
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