Cortex XDR Agent: Local Administrator can disable the agent on macOS
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 96% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A problem with a protection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on macOS allows a local administrator to disable the agent. This issue could be leveraged by malware to perform malicious activity without detection.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR Agent