CVE-2024-5909

MEDIUM

Paloaltonetworks Cortex Xdr Agent - Improper Privilege Management

Title source: rule

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.

Exploits (1)

nomisec WORKING POC 33 stars

by ig-labs · poc

https://github.com/ig-labs/EDR-ALPC-Block-POC

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5909

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0086

EPSS Percentile 75.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (2)

paloaltonetworks/cortex_xdr_agent 7.9 - 7.9.102

paloaltonetworks/cortex_xdr_agent 8.1 - 8.1.2

Published Jun 12, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026