Vulnerability · Published Jun 12, 2024 · Assigned by palo_alto

CVE-2024-5907Cortex XDR Agent: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

Medium 5.2

In plain English

A medium-severity privilege mismanagement in Cortex XDR Agent from Palo Alto Networks. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 3% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.2Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 97.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks	Cortex XDR Agent	7.9-CE – before 7.9.102-CE8.1.08.2.0 – before 8.2.38.3.0 – before 8.3.1

Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: 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

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5907 vendor-advisory