CVE-2020-1988

Global Protect Agent: Local privilege escalation due to an unquoted search path vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 4.2 Medium
Published: Apr 8, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Dec 4, 2019

Description

An unquoted search path vulnerability in the Windows release of Global Protect Agent allows an authenticated local user with file creation privileges on the root of the OS disk (C:\) or to Program Files directory to gain system privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Agent 5.0 versions before 5.0.5; 4.1 versions before 4.1.13 on Windows;

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.2 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-428 Unquoted Search Path or Element

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Global Protect AgentPalo Alto Networks	5.0 to before 5.0.5Affectedfrom 5.0.5Not affected 4.1 to before 4.1.13Affectedfrom 4.1.13Not affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1988

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