CVE-2024-5907CWE-269

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

Medium · published June 12, 2024

CVSS v4.0
5.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.2 · MEDIUM
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
EPSS
0.00130 · 2.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2024-06-12T16:26Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JUN 16:26Z
    Cortex XDR Agent: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
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