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.

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-0001

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-9qr8-h5jr-2gmw

Published

February 8, 2023 6:30 PM

Last Modified

February 18, 2023 9:30 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: July 29, 2025 6:37 AM

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