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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

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  • cpe: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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