CVE-2025-0112 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2025-0112

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Windows User Can Disable the Agent

6.8 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

A problem with a detection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices enables a user with Windows non-administrative privileges to disable the agent. This vulnerability can also be leveraged by malware to disable the Cortex XDR agent and then perform malicious activity.

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:

Eldar Aharoni of Palo Alto Networks

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0112

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Affected Vendor

Palo Alto Networks

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Affected Software

Cortex XDR Agent

Vulnerable Versions:

8.3-CE, 8.4.0, 8.5.0, 8.6.0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 19th, 2025

Last Modified: February 20th, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service

T1562 Impair Defenses

Defense Evasion

T1005 Data from Local System