CVE-2024-5907: Palo Alto Cortex XDR Agent: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
This Palo Alto advisory covers CVE-2024-5907 in Cortex XDR Agent.
- CVE-2024-5907
Key facts
- Vendor rating
- Medium, CVSS 5.2
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalogue checked )
- Affected
- Cortex XDR Agent < 7.9.102-CE; Cortex XDR Agent < 8.2.3; Cortex XDR Agent < 8.3.1 and 2 more below
- Fixed in
- Cortex XDR Agent >= 7.9.102-CE, Cortex XDR Agent >= 8.2.3, Cortex XDR Agent >= 8.3.1
- Source published
- Source revised
- Listed by VulniPulse
Compiled by VulniPulse from the linked sources. How records are collected and checked.
Affected products & platforms
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.
Text from the source record.
- Cortex XDR Agent < 7.9.102-CE
- Cortex XDR Agent < 8.2.3
- Cortex XDR Agent < 8.3.1
- Cortex XDR Agent 8.4 None
- Cortex XDR Agent 8.1 All
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How to fix CVE-2024-5907
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Palo Alto:
- Cortex XDR Agent >= 7.9.102-CE
- Cortex XDR Agent >= 8.2.3
- Cortex XDR Agent >= 8.3.1
Vendor guidance
- 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.
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