CVE-2024-8690

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Windows Administrator Can Disable the Agent

State: Published
Severity: 5.6 Medium
Published: Sep 11, 2024
Updated: Sep 11, 2024
Reserved: Sep 11, 2024

Description

A problem with a detection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices enables a user with Windows administrator privileges 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	5.6 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-440 Expected Behavior Violation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Cortex XDR AgentPalo Alto Networks	8.5Not affected 8.4Not affected 8.3Not affected 8.3-CENot affected 8.2Not affected 7.9.102-CEAffected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-8690

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