CVE-2024-8690

Published: Sep 11, 2024

Modified: Sep 11, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks	Cortex XDR Agent	unaffected `8.5` unaffected `8.4` unaffected `8.3` unaffected `8.3-CE` unaffected `8.2` +1 more versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-440

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-8690

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CVE-2024-8690

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

References