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Cortex XDR Agent Release Notes

Product
Cortex XDR
Cortex XDR Agent
Version
7.7
Creation date
2022-08-31
Last date published
2023-01-04
End_of_Life
EoL
Category
Release Notes

Addressed Issues in Cortex XDR Agent 7.7.3

The following has been addressed in this release:

Feature

Description

CPATR-17610

Fixed an issue on Windows endpoints where XDR agent injection caused a registry key handle leakage in the System process context.

CPATR-17561

To provide better visibility, gap events now include the following information: the description of the filtering mechanism dropping the events, its limit and timeframe.

CPATR-17515

Fixed an issue where auto-upgrades to the agent may be triggering false positive alerts.

CPATR-17466

(Linux/macOS)

Fixed a memory issue caused by spawning of pending forks for events that do not need to be analyzed.

CPATR-17429

Fixed an issue where in case of high memory consumption due to the anomalously large DB, the file prevalence is temporarily disabled by an adaptive policy.

CPATR-17414

Fixed a low free disk space issue caused by retrieval of large support log files.

CPATR-17382

Fixed an issue that caused multiple entries in the agent log due to a malformed configuration, leading to high resource consumption.

CPATR-17378

(Windows)

Fixed an issue where the agent logs events outside its configuration.

CPATR-17305

Fixed an issue where a function for getting the current time resulted in high CPU usage by XDR agent services.

CPATR-17291

(Windows)

Fixed an issue where in rare cases, network connections bookkeeping resulted in a memory leak.

CPATR-17286

Fixed an issue where cyserver may halt when the computer is low on memory

CPATR-17276

Fixed an issue where uploading files from an agent to Wildfire resulted in high network bandwidth consumption.

CPATR-17269

Fixed an issue where servers were displayed as disconnected in Cortex XDR and as active on the host, resulting in Service Stopped notifications.

CPATR-17230

(macOS)

Fixed an issue where on rare occasions a race condition causes prevention or termination of an executed process in macOS systems which contain third party extensions in addition to Cortex XDR.

CPATR-17198

Fixed an issue where in some cases upon file deletion, Cortex XDR Agent service (cyserver.exe) crashes.

CPATR-17152

Fixed an issue where zombie processes remain in some workflows after termination of child processes.

CPATR-17136

Fixed an issue where local event cleanup does not reach the appropriate size.

CPATR-16564

Fixed an issue where force stopping the cyserver during upload of multiple files may lead it to crash.

Addressed Issues in Cortex XDR Agent 7.7.2-hotfix

The following has been addressed in this release:

Feature

Description

CPATR-17371

(Windows)

Fixed an issue with support file collection.

Addressed Issues in Cortex XDR Agent 7.7.2

The following has been addressed in this release:

Feature

Description

CPATR-17108

Fixed an issue where data queue overload may impact agent performance.

CPATR-17107

(Windows)

Fixed an issue where local data storing may impact agent performance.

CPATR-17090

(Linux)

Fixed an issue where installation on RHEL8 with FIPS mode is not successful.

CPATR-16943

Fixed an issue where in some cases upon file deletion, Cortex XDR Agent service (cyserver.exe) crashes.

CPATR-16886

(Linux)

Fixed an issue where a race condition prevents Cortex XDR Process Monitor Daemon from accessing data collected by the agent.

CPATR-16865

(Linux)

Fixed an issue where a change in OS on an endpoint is not updated in the All Endpoints table.

CPATR-16785

(Linux)

Fixed an issue where upgrades are not successful or some services don't start correctly because old files could not be removed.

CPATR-16783

(Linux)

Fixed an issue where upgrades may lead to a disabled state of the agent.

CPATR-16755

(Linux)

Fixed an issue where the agent is attempting to update when some of the processes are disabled.

CPATR-16736

(Linux)

Fixed an issue where an upgrade may impact agent performance.

CPATR-16666

(Linux)

Fixed a race condition where the Cortex agent injection module causes a Java exception.

CPATR-16530

(Linux)

Fixed an issue with the dynamic protection service that results in partial protection of an affected endpoint.

CPATR-15801

(Linux)

Fixed an installation issue on systems running RHEL 8 with FIPS mode enabled.

Addressed Issues in Cortex XDR Agent 7.7.1

The following has been addressed in this release:

Feature

Description

CPATR-16354

(Windows)

Fixed an issue where the agent is shown as disabled on the firewall providers list in WSC.

CPATR-15050

(Windows)

Required upgrade of Python version used by Cortex agent Python infrastructure on Windows from 3.7 to 3.8, due to approaching end-of-life (EoL) of 3.7. Applying KB3126587 Windows update might be required on Windows 7 Embedded.

CPATR-16767

Fixed an issue where the DMG path isn’t resolved on macOS Monterey.

CPATR-16766

Fixed an issue where a protection setting on the agent may cause the upgrade to fail.

CPATR-16723

Fixed an issue where a bug in cyserver caused the installer to fail on roll back.

CPATR-16690

Fixed an issue where multiple logged-in users during agent startup may cause the agent to pause.

CPATR-16591

Fixed an issue where some agent scripts failed to run due to an unknown location.

CPATR-16566

Fixed an issue where cyserver.exe crashes after the agent upgrades to 7.7.0.

CPATR-16296

Fixed an issue where in case of denial of service, the anti-malware module may lead to process termination.

CPATR-16842

Fixed an issue while working with a support exception that disables injection. Any restart to pmd results in a reboot loop.

Addressed Issues in Cortex XDR Agent 7.7.0-hotfix

The following has been addressed in this release:

Feature

Description

CPATR-16539

Fixed an issue addressing vulnerability CVE-2022-0778

Affected versions: < 7.7.0.60725 on Windows, < 7.7.0.2356 on macOS, < 7.7.0.59559 on Linux

CPATR-16609

(Linux)

Fixed an issue on Linux endpoints where when running a Spring4Shell exploit an exception is generated but the process is not terminated.

Addressed Issues in Cortex XDR Agent 7.7

The following has been addressed in this release:

Feature

Description

CPATR-16387

(Windows)

Fixed an issue where agents become unresponsive following an upgrade.

CPATR-16106

Fixed an issue where payload versions are not updated after an agent restart.

CPATR-15441

Fixed an issue where the agent is using a large amount of disk space.

CPATR-15310

(Windows)

Fixed an issue where the agent fails to first query the hardware ID.

CPATR-15300

(Linux)

Fixed an issue with log file folder permissions.

CPATR-15041

(MacOS)

Fixed an issue where uninstall of MacOS agent can fail due to the database structure.

CPATR-14814

Fixed an issue where the agent does not receive the WildFire verdict.

CPATR-16566

Fixed an issue where cyserver.exe crashes after agent upgrades to 7.7.