CVE-2024-5909

high

Description

A problem with a protection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices allows a low privileged local Windows user to disable the agent. This issue may be leveraged by malware to disable the Cortex XDR agent and then to perform malicious activity.

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5909

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5909

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-06-12

Updated: 2024-06-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

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

Severity: High