Global Protect Agent: Local privilege escalation due to an unquoted search path vulnerability
CVE-2020-1988

4.2MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Palo Alto Networks
Status
Global Protect Agent
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 April 2020

Summary

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 Version(s)

Global Protect Agent Windows 5.0 < 5.0.5

Global Protect Agent Windows 4.1 < 4.1.13

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1988
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.2
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Palo Alto Networks thanks Ratnesh Pandey of Bromium and Matthew Batten for discovering and reporting this issue.
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