CVE-2020-1989

Global Protect Agent: Incorrect privilege assignment allows local privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Apr 8, 2020
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Dec 4, 2019

Description

An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability when writing application-specific files in the Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent for Linux on ARM platform allows a local authenticated user to gain root privileges on the system. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent for Linux 5.0 versions before 5.0.8; 5.1 versions before 5.1.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Global Protect AgentPalo Alto Networks	5.0 to before 5.0.8Affectedfrom 5.0.8Not affected 5.1 to before 5.1.1Affectedfrom 5.1.1Not affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1989

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