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CVE-2023-0002
Cortex XDR Agent: Product Disruption by Local Windows User
Medium5.5EPSS 0.29%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- palo_alto
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 78% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR agent
- unaffected 7.9 All
- unaffected 7.8 All
- affected 7.5 – < 7.5.101-CE
- affected 5.0 – < 5.0.12.22203
What to do
Solution: This issue is fixed in Cortex XDR agent 5.0.12.22203, Cortex XDR agent 7.5.101-CE, and all later supported Cortex XDR agent versions.
Workaround: There are no known workarounds for this issue.
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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