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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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