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ghsa-78rr-5vrh-jhqh

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Published

2025-05-14 21:31

Modified

2025-05-15 21:31

Severity ?

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:D/U:Amber

Details

An incorrect privilege management vulnerability in the OPSWAT MetaDefender Endpoint Security SDK used by 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 also successfully exploits a race condition, which makes this vulnerability difficult to exploit.

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  "modified": "2025-05-15T21:31:26Z",
  "published": "2025-05-14T21:31:17Z",
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CVE-2025-0131 (GCVE-0-2025-0131)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-05-14 18:06

Modified

2025-05-21 21:11

Severity ?

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:D/U:Amber

CWE

CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Summary

An incorrect privilege management vulnerability in the OPSWAT MetaDefender Endpoint Security SDK used by 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 also successfully exploits a race condition, which makes this vulnerability difficult to exploit.

References

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	https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0131	third-party-advisory
	https://www.opswat.com/docs/mdsdk/release-notes/cve-2025-0131	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	OPSWAT	MetaDefender Endpoint Security SDK	Version: 4.3.0 < 4.3.4451

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