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CVE-2024-5909

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-06-12 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Paloaltonetworks Cortex Xdr Agent

Weakness Type

CWE-269, CWE-269

References