Cortex XDR Agent Information Exposure Vulnerability: Cleartext Disclosure of Admin Password

CVE-2023-0001

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.

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