CVE-2026-0232 | THREATINT

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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-03 | Published 2026-04-13 | Updated 2026-04-13 | Assigner palo_alto

MEDIUM: 4.0CVSS: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

Problem types

CWE-15: External Control of System or Configuration Setting

Product status

Default status
unaffected

9.1.0 (custom) before 5.10.14
unaffected

9.0 (custom)
unaffected

8.9 (custom)
unaffected

8.7-CE (custom)
unaffected

Default status
unaffected

9.0 (custom) before 9.0.1
affected

8.9 (custom) before 8.9.1
affected

8.7-CE (custom) before 8.7.101-CE
affected

8.3-CE (custom) before 8.3-CE-CU-2120
affected

7.9-CE (custom) before 7.9-CE-CU-2120
affected

Timeline

2026-04-08:

Initial publication.

Credits

WhatThe0xDoin finder

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0232 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-0232)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-0232)

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