Overview
- Description
- A privilege escalation vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows allows a locally authenticated non-administrative Windows user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM through the use of the repair functionality offered by the .msi file used to install GlobalProtect.
- Source
- psirt@paloaltonetworks.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
- Type
- Secondary
- Base score
- 5.2
- Impact score
- -
- Exploitability score
- -
- Vector string
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
- psirt@paloaltonetworks.com
- CWE-250
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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