CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-0232
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-13
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-15
Description
A problem with a protection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows allows a local Windows administrator to disable the agent. This issue may be leveraged by malware to perform malicious activity without detection.
Affected configurations
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent (>= 8.7.0 < 8.7.101)
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 7.9
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 8.3
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 8.9.0
• paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent 9.0.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-15 External Control of System or Configuration Setting weakness
References
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0232 Vendor Advisory