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CVE-2023-0001

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.0 Published: 2023-02-08 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Paloaltonetworks Cortex Xdr AgentMicrosoft Windows

Weakness Type

CWE-319, CWE-319

References