CVE-2024-5907

high

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.

References

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-06-12

Updated: 2024-06-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High