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This issue may be leveraged by malware to disable the Cortex XDR agent and then to perform malicious activity."}],"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"NVD - CVE-2024-8690","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8690"},{"category":"self","summary":"Palo Alto Networks Security Advisory CVE-2024-8690","url":"https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-8690"}],"threats":[{"category":"impact","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. 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