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CVE-2024-5909
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-06-12T17:15:53.370 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:16:53.427

Summary

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.

Affected products

paloaltonetworks — cortex_xdr_agent

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References

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