- 4.0MediumCVSS base score
- 0.15%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 96% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By palo_alto
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium4.0 | 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/AU:Y/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | Medium4.0 | 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 |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR Agent
- unaffected 9.1.0 – < 5.10.14
- unaffected 9.0
- unaffected 8.9
- unaffected 8.7-CE
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR Agent
- affected 9.0 – < 9.0.1
- affected 8.9 – < 8.9.1
- affected 8.7-CE – < 8.7.101-CE
- affected 8.3-CE – < 8.3-CE-CU-2120
- affected 7.9-CE – < 7.9-CE-CU-2120
What to do
Solution: To fully remediate this vulnerability, customers must ensure their Content Update is at version 2120 or higher. This update provides the necessary protection across all supported versions of Cortex XDR. While the Content Update provides the primary fix, the following software releases include complementary architectural enhancements to further harden the environment: * Cortex XDR 9.1.0 (or later) * Cortex XDR 9.0.1 (or later) * Cortex XDR 8.9.1 (or later) * Cortex XDR 8.7.101-CE (or later) Note for 8.3-CE and 7.9-CE: These versions are fully protected by applying Content Update 2120. No additional software upgrade is required for these versions to mitigate this specific vulnerability.
Workaround: No known workarounds exist for this issue.
Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.
References
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Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-21895 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-0232)Record last updated .