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CVE-2023-3280

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-3280 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices, where a local user can disable the agent due to a flaw in its protection mechanism. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local privileges, with the primary impact being a high availability compromise (disabling the agent). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.0, <= 5.0.12.22203CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.9.0, < 7.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
>= 7.9.0, < 7.9.101CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:*:*:*:*:content_update:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.5.102CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:7.5.102:*:*:*:content_update:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
22.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

paloaltovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com / CVE-2023-3280
Vendor Advisory