CVE-2024-9473

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 5.2 Medium
Published: Oct 9, 2024
Updated: Oct 18, 2024
Reserved: Oct 3, 2024

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.

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:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	5.1Affected 6.0Affected 6.1Affected 6.2.0 to before 6.2.5Affectedfrom 6.2.5Not affected 6.3Affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9473vendor-advisory
https://sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/advisory/local-privilege-escalation-via-msi-installer-in-palo-alto-networks-globalprotect/third-party-advisoryexploit
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Oct/2

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