CVE-2024-5909

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Windows User Can Disable the Agent

State: Published
Severity: 6.8 Medium
Published: Jun 12, 2024
Updated: Aug 1, 2024
Reserved: Jun 12, 2024

Description

A problem with a protection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices allows a low privileged local Windows user to disable the agent. This issue may be leveraged by malware to disable the Cortex XDR agent and then to perform malicious activity.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.8 Medium	CVSS: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	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cortex XDR AgentPalo Alto Networks	8.4.0Not affected 8.3.0Not affected 8.2.0 to before 8.2.1Affectedfrom 8.2.1Not affected 8.1.0 to before 8.1.2Affectedfrom 8.1.2Not affected 7.9-CE to before 7.9.102-CEAffectedfrom 7.9.102-CENot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5909vendor-advisory

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