CyberCVE

CVE-2024-9469

Cortex XDR Agent: Local Windows User Can Disable the Agent

Severity
Medium 5.7
CVSS 4.0
Adjacent, local or physical access what this means
Exploited
Not listed
EPSS
0.002
10.4th percentile
Discovered by
Third party
Vendor-published field
Published
Oct 9, 2024
Assigned by palo_alto

Description

A problem with a detection mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices enables a user with Windows non-administrative privileges to disable the agent. This issue may be leveraged by malware to disable the Cortex XDR agent and then to perform malicious activity.

Weakness: CWE-754

Affected products

Vendor Product Category Matched by
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Endpoint / EDR cna-assigner
Vendor-reported products (1)
  • Palo Alto Networks · Cortex XDR Agent

Credit

Orange Cyberdefense Switzerland's Research Team

Vendor remediation

This issue is fixed in Cortex XDR Agent 7.9.102-CE, Cortex XDR Agent 8.3.1, Cortex XDR Agent 8.4.1, and all later Cortex XDR Agent versions.

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