CVE-2023-0001 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-0001

Cortex XDR Agent: Cleartext Exposure of Agent Admin Password

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

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

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Affected Vendor

Palo Alto Networks

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Affected Software

Cortex XDR agent
Vulnerable Versions:
7.9 All, 7.8 All, 7.5, 5.0 All

Timeline

Official Publish: February 8th, 2023
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-319

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1040 Network Sniffing
Collection
T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle
Credential Access
T1552 Unsecured Credentials
Credential Access
T1078 Valid Accounts
Persistence
T1071 Application Layer Protocol
Command and Control