CVE-2024-5909

6.8 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (6.8) in paloaltonetworks cortex xdr agent. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.8 medium

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 35% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2024-06-12
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

paloaltonetworks:cortex_xdr_agent

References

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

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