CVE-2024-5907 (GCVE-0-2024-5907)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-06-12 16:26
Modified
2024-08-01 21:25
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent Version: 7.9-CE   < 7.9.102-CE
Version: 8.1.0
Version: 8.2.0   < 8.2.3
Version: 8.3.0   < 8.3.1
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