{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5909 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5909 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2024-5909 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent, published on 12 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-5909 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-5909 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent, published on 12 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5909 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Agent. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5909/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5909/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-5909","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5909/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-5909","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-26v6-wwwv-j4cc"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Cortex XDR Agent","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local low-privileged user can disable the Cortex XDR agent, allowing malware to operate without detection.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"security_feature_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"palo_alto","cpe":[{"product":"cortex_xdr_agent","vendor":"paloaltonetworks"}],"cvss":{"score":6.8,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2025-01-28","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":36,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2025-01-28T14:30:39Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/ig-labs/EDR-ALPC-Block-POC","stars":36,"title":"Blocking Windows EDR agents by registering an own IPC-object in the Object Manager’s namespace (CVE-2023-3280, CVE-2024-5909, CVE-2024-20671)"}],"tier":"poc_unverified"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Cortex XDR Agent: Local Windows User Can Disable the Agent","id":"CVE-2024-5909","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"security_feature_bypass","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Palo Alto Networks Expedition Missing Authentication","id":"CVE-2024-5910"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"GlobalProtect App: Encrypted Credential Exposure via Log Files","id":"CVE-2024-5908"},"products":["Cortex XDR Agent"],"published":"2024-06-12","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Cortex XDR Agent: An Uncontrolled Search Path Element Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-0015","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-01-12"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Cortex XDR Agent: Improper Control of User-Controlled File Leads to Local Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2021-3042","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-07-15"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Cortex XDR Agent: Improper control of user-controlled file leads to local privilege escalation","id":"CVE-2021-3041","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-06-10"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Cortex XDR Agent: Improper control of loaded DLL leads to local privilege escalation","id":"CVE-2020-2049","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-12-09"},{"cvss_score":6.7,"headline":"Cortex XDR Agent: An Uncontrolled Search Path Element Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-0025","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-05-11"},{"cvss_score":6.7,"headline":"Cortex XDR Agent: Unintended Program Execution Leads to Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2022-0026","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-05-11"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-01","vendors":["Palo Alto Networks"]},"summary":"A local low-privileged user can disable the Cortex XDR agent, allowing malware to operate without detection.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5909/"}