CVE-2024-5907

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 5.2 Medium
Published: Jun 12, 2024
Updated: Aug 1, 2024
Reserved: Jun 12, 2024

Description

A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices enables a local user to execute programs with elevated privileges. However, execution does require the local user to successfully exploit a race condition, which makes this vulnerability difficult to exploit.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.2 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cortex XDR AgentPalo Alto Networks	7.9-CE to before 7.9.102-CEAffectedfrom 7.9.102-CENot affected 8.1.0Affected 8.2.0 to before 8.2.3Affectedfrom 8.2.3Not affected 8.3.0 to before 8.3.1Affectedfrom 8.3.1Not affected 8.4.0Not affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5907vendor-advisory

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