CVE-2025-0118

GlobalProtect App: Execution of Unsafe ActiveX Control Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.0 Medium
Published: Mar 12, 2025
Updated: Mar 12, 2025
Reserved: Dec 20, 2024

Description

A vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows allows a remote attacker to run ActiveX controls within the context of an authenticated Windows user. This enables the attacker to run commands as if they are a legitimate authenticated user. However, to exploit this vulnerability, the authenticated user must navigate to a malicious page during the GlobalProtect SAML login process on a Windows device.

This issue does not apply to the GlobalProtect app on other (non-Windows) platforms.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.0 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:L/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-618 Exposed Unsafe ActiveX Method

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	6.3.0 to before 6.3.3Not affectedfrom 6.3.3Not affected 6.2.0 to before 6.2.5Affectedfrom 6.2.5Not affected 6.1.0 to before 6.1.6Affectedfrom 6.1.6Not affected 6.0.0 to before 6.0.11Affectedfrom 6.0.11Not 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-2025-0118vendor-advisory

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