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Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex® XDR agent on Windows devices allows a low-privileged local Windows user to crash the agent. Additionally, malware can use this vulnerability to perform malicious activity without Cortex XDR being able to detect it.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-12-20 | Published 2025-04-11 | Updated 2025-04-11 | Assigner palo_alto




MEDIUM: 6.8CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

Problem types

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Product status

Default status
unaffected

8.7.0 (custom) before 6.3.3
unaffected

8.6.0 (custom) before 8.6.1
affected

8.5.0 (custom) before 8.5.2
affected

8.3-CE (custom) before 8.3.101-CE HF
affected

7.9-CE (custom) before 7.9.103-CE HF
affected

Timeline

2025-04-09:Initial Publication

Credits

adcisseckilled finder

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0121 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-0121)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-0121)

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