Description
A vulnerability with a privilege management mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app on Windows devices allows a locally authenticated non-administrative Windows user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. However, execution requires that the local user can also successfully exploit a race condition, which makes this vulnerability difficult to exploit.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 4.0
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality (Vulnerable System)
None
Integrity (Vulnerable System)
High
Availability (Vulnerable System)
None
Confidentiality (Subsequent System)
High
Integrity (Subsequent System)
High
Availability (Subsequent System)
High
AU
None
R
Unchanged
V
Changed
RE
M
U
Amber
Affected products
- Palo Alto Networks / GlobalProtect UWP AppAll – All
- paloaltonetworks / globalprotect_app6.3.1 – 6.3.1
- paloaltonetworks / globalprotect_app6.3.0 – 6.3.0
- paloaltonetworks / globalprotect_app6.2.7 – 6.2.7
- paloaltonetworks / globalprotect_app6.2.6 – 6.2.6
- paloaltonetworks / globalprotect_app6.3.2 – 6.3.2
- paloaltonetworks / globalprotect_app6.2.3 – 6.2.3
- paloaltonetworks / globalprotect_app6.2.2 – 6.2.2
- paloaltonetworks / globalprotect_app6.2.1 – 6.2.1
- paloaltonetworks / globalprotect_app6.2.0 – 6.2.0
- paloaltonetworks / globalprotect_app6.2.4 – 6.2.4