CVE-2024-5907
Cortex XDR Agent: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- palo_alto
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium5.2 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 4.0 | Medium5.2 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.13% · top 97% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.2.
Weakness
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR Agent
- affected 7.9-CE – < 7.9.102-CE
- affected 8.1.0
- affected 8.2.0 – < 8.2.3
- affected 8.3.0 – < 8.3.1
- unaffected 8.4.0
What to do
Solution: This issue is fixed in Cortex XDR agent 7.9.102-CE, Cortex XDR agent 8.2.3, Cortex XDR agent 8.3.1, and all later Cortex XDR agent versions. This issue will not be addressed in Cortex XDR agent 8.1, which reached end-of-life (EoL) status on April 9, 2024.
Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.
References (1)
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5907 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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