Cortex XDR Agent: Product Disruption by Local Windows User (Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent)

CVE-2023-0002
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.29 % · percentile 22 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
palo_alto
NVD status
Modified

Description

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-693 — Protection Mechanism Failure

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hpalo_alto
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR agentunaffected 7.9 All ; unaffected 7.8 All ; affected 7.5 < 7.5.101-CE ; affected 5.0 < 5.0.12.22203

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD