cve/2024/CVE-2024-5907.md

### [CVE-2024-5907](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-5907)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Cortex%20XDR%20Agent&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=7.9-CE%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=8.1.0%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=8.2.0%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=8.3.0%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-269%20Improper%20Privilege%20Management&color=brightgreen)

### Description

A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on Windows devices enables a local user to execute programs with elevated privileges. However, execution does require the local user to successfully exploit a race condition, which makes this vulnerability difficult to exploit.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds