CVE-2024-5905

MEDIUM

Cortex XDR Agent 7.9.0-7.9.101 and 8.1-8.1.1 - Local Denial of Service via Protection Mechanism Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A problem with a protection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices allows a local low privileged Windows user to disrupt some functionality of the agent. However, they are not able to disrupt Cortex XDR agent protection mechanisms using this vulnerability.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5905

Scores

CVSS v3 4.4
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 0.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-346
Status published
Products (2)
paloaltonetworks/cortex_xdr_agent 7.9.0 - 7.9.102
paloaltonetworks/cortex_xdr_agent 8.1 - 8.1.2
Published Jun 12, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026