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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.2 Medium

CVE-2020-1988

Global Protect Agent: Local privilege escalation due to an unquoted search path vulnerability

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
palo_alto

Description

An unquoted search path vulnerability in the Windows release of Global Protect Agent allows an authenticated local user with file creation privileges on the root of the OS disk (C:\) or to Program Files directory to gain system privileges. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Agent 5.0 versions before 5.0.5; 4.1 versions before 4.1.13 on Windows;

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent

  • 5.0 to < 5.0.5affected
  • 4.1 to < 4.1.13affected

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