cve-2025-0117
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-12 18:35
Modified
2025-03-13 03:55
Severity ?
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
Summary
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.
References
psirt@paloaltonetworks.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0117
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App Version: 6.3.0   < 6.3.3
Version: 6.2.0   < 6.2.6
Version: 6.1.0   < 10.2.14
Version: 6.0.0   < 10.1.14-h11
    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect_app:6.3.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect_app:6.3.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect_app:6.3.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect_app:6.2.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect_app:6.2.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
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    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect_app:6.2.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect_app:6.2.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
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    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect_app:6.3.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect_app:6.3.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
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    cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect_app:6.2.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
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