CVE-2025-0139 (GCVE-0-2025-0139)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-09 22:57
Modified
2025-08-13 19:44
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Summary
An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Autonomous Digital Experience Manager allows a locally authenticated low privileged user on macOS endpoints to escalate their privileges to root.
References
psirt@paloaltonetworks.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0139
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Palo Alto Networks Autonomous Digital Experience Manager Version: 5.6.0   < 5.6.7
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