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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.4 High

CVE-2025-0141

GlobalProtect App: Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

Description

An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ App on enables a locally authenticated non administrative user to escalate their privileges to root on macOS and Linux or NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Windows. The GlobalProtect app on iOS, Android, Chrome OS and GlobalProtect UWP app are not affected.

Affected products

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

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App

Default version status: unaffected

  • 6.3.0 to < 6.3.3-h1 (6.3.3-c650)affected
  • 6.2.0 to < 6.2.8-h2 (6.2.8-c243)affected
  • 6.1.0affected
  • 6.0.0affected

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App

Default version status: unaffected

  • Allunaffected

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect UWP App

Default version status: unaffected

  • Allunaffected

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App

Default version status: unaffected

  • 6.2.0 to < 6.2.8affected
  • 6.1.0affected
  • 6.0.0affected

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