🛡️ CVE-2024-8690
🟡 CVSS 4.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-440 NVD
4.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-440
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-11
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2024-10-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cortex-xdr-agent

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