High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Jun 12, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-5907
CVE-2024-5907
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.
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Affected products
4cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=8.1,<8.2.3
- cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent:*:*:*:*:critical_environment:*:*:*range: >=7.9,<7.9.102
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 7.9-CE
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References
1- security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5907nvdVendor Advisory
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