Cortex XDR Agent: Cleartext Exposure of Agent Admin Password
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 88% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR agent