CVE-2023-0002
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-08 17:21
Modified
2024-08-02 04:54
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A problem with a protection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices allows a local user to execute privileged cytool commands that disable or uninstall the agent.
References
psirt@paloaltonetworks.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-0002Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-0002Vendor Advisory
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