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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.8 Medium

CVE-2024-5909

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Windows User Can Disable the Agent

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
palo_alto

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.

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

  • 8.4.0unaffected
  • 8.3.0unaffected
  • 8.2.0 to < 8.2.1affected
  • 8.1.0 to < 8.1.2affected
  • 7.9-CE to < 7.9.102-CEaffected

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