CVE-2024-5915

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 5.2 Medium
Published: Aug 14, 2024
Updated: Aug 20, 2024
Reserved: Jun 12, 2024

Description

A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows devices enables a local user to execute programs with elevated privileges.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.2 Medium	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/AU:N/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	5.1Affected 6.0Affected 6.1 to before 6.1.5Affectedfrom 6.1.5Not affected 6.2 to before 6.2.4Affectedfrom 6.2.4Not affected 6.3 to before 6.3.1Affectedfrom 6.3.1Not affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-5915

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