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However, execution does require the local user to successfully exploit a race condition, which makes this vulnerability difficult to exploit."}],"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"NVD - CVE-2024-5907","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5907"},{"category":"self","summary":"Palo Alto Networks Security Advisory CVE-2024-5907","url":"https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5907"}],"threats":[{"category":"impact","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. 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