CVE-2023-0001: Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xdr Agent

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xdr Agent: from 7.5, before 7.5.101 (fixed in 7.5.101)

Published 2023-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.