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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.2 Medium

CVE-2024-5907

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
palo_alto

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent

Default version status: unaffected

  • 7.9-CE to < 7.9.102-CEaffected
  • 8.1.0affected
  • 8.2.0 to < 8.2.3affected
  • 8.3.0 to < 8.3.1affected
  • 8.4.0unaffected

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