CVE-2024-5907
HIGHPalo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent 7.9-7.9.101 and 8.1-8.2.2 - Local Privilege Escalation via Race Condition
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5907
Scores
CVSS v3
7.0
EPSS
0.0008
EPSS Percentile
24.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-269
Status
published
Products (2)
paloaltonetworks/cortex_xdr_agent
7.9 - 7.9.102
paloaltonetworks/cortex_xdr_agent
8.1 - 8.2.3
Published
Jun 12, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026