CVE-2020-2032

GlobalProtect App: File race condition vulnerability leads to local privilege escalation during upgrade

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Jun 10, 2020
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Dec 4, 2019

Description

A race condition vulnerability Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows allows a local limited Windows user to execute programs with SYSTEM privileges. This issue can be exploited only while performing a GlobalProtect app upgrade. This issue affects: GlobalProtect app 5.0 versions earlier than GlobalProtect app 5.0.10 on Windows; GlobalProtect app 5.1 versions earlier than GlobalProtect app 5.1.4 on Windows.

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-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	5.1 to before 5.1.4Affectedfrom 5.1.4Not affected 5.0 to before 5.0.10Affectedfrom 5.0.10Not affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2032

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