CVE-2023-0001 Cortex XDR Agent: Cleartext Exposure of Agent Admin Password
Local administrators can expose the agent's admin password, allowing attackers to disable or uninstall the security agent via privileged commands.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-0001?
CVE-2023-0001 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent, published on 8 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-319
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-0001?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Paloaltonetworks Cortex Xdr Agent.
How do I fix CVE-2023-0001?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-0001 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2023-0001 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-0001 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent
- CVE-2022-0015 Cortex XDR Agent: An Uncontrolled Search Path Element Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
- CVE-2021-3042 Cortex XDR Agent: Improper Control of User-Controlled File Leads to Local Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2021-3041 Cortex XDR Agent: Improper control of user-controlled file leads to local privilege escalation
- CVE-2020-2049 Cortex XDR Agent: Improper control of loaded DLL leads to local privilege escalation
- CVE-2024-5909 Cortex XDR Agent: Local Windows User Can Disable the Agent
Sources
Also known as GHSA-9qr8-h5jr-2gmw.