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Palo Alto Cortex XDR Agent 7.5.x < 7.5.101-CE Cleartext Credential

medium Nessus Plugin ID 176475

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Synopsis

An application installed on the remote Windows host is affected by cleartext credential exposure.

Description

The version of Palo Alto Cortex XDR Agent installed on the remote Windows host is 7.5 prior to 7.5.101-CE. It is, therefore, affected by an information exposure vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices that 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.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Palo Alto Cortex XDR Agent version 7.5.101-CE or later.

See Also

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-0001

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 176475

File Name: palo_alto_cortex_xdr_agent_cve-2023-0001.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 5/30/2023

Updated: 10/23/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-0001

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Palo Alto Cortex XDR Agent

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0001