CVE-2025-0120

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Apr 11, 2025
Updated: May 2, 2025
Reserved: Dec 20, 2024

Description

A vulnerability with a privilege management mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app on Windows devices allows a locally authenticated non-administrative Windows user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. However, execution requires that the local user can also successfully exploit a race condition, which makes this vulnerability difficult to exploit.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/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	6.3.0 to before 6.3.3Affectedfrom 6.3.3Not affected 6.2.0 to before 6.2.8Affectedfrom 6.2.8Not affectedfrom 6.2.7-1077Not affected 6.1.0Affected 6.0.0Affected
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected
GlobalProtect UWP AppPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0120vendor-advisory

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