"value":"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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"value":"CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information",
"value":"There are no known workarounds for this issue."
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],
"value":"There are no known workarounds for this issue."
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"value":"This issue is fixed in Cortex XDR agent 7.5.101-CE and all later supported Cortex XDR agent versions. (Cortex XDR agent 5.0 is not impacted.)<br><br>After you upgrade to a fixed version of the Cortex XDR agent, you must change the agent admin password in case it was already disclosed to users."
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"value":"This issue is fixed in Cortex XDR agent 7.5.101-CE and all later supported Cortex XDR agent versions. (Cortex XDR agent 5.0 is not impacted.)\n\nAfter you upgrade to a fixed version of the Cortex XDR agent, you must change the agent admin password in case it was already disclosed to users."
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"credits":[
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"value":"Palo Alto Networks thanks Robert McCallum (M42D) for discovering and reporting this issue."