CVE-2025-0117

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Mar 12, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Dec 20, 2024

Description

A reliance on untrusted input for a security decision in the GlobalProtect app on Windows devices potentially enables a locally authenticated non-administrative Windows user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

GlobalProtect App on macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Chrome OS and GlobalProtect UWP App are not affected.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-807 Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	6.3.0 to before 6.3.3Affectedfrom 6.3.3Not affected 6.2.0 to before 6.2.6Affectedfrom 6.2.6Not affected 6.1.0 to before 10.2.14Affectedfrom 10.2.14Not affectedfrom 10.2.13-h5Not affected 6.0.0 to before 10.1.14-h11Affectedfrom 10.1.14-h11Not affected
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	All to before 6.3.3Not affectedfrom 6.3.3Not affected
GlobalProtect UWP AppPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0117vendor-advisory

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