CVE-2025-0120

HIGH

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect < - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability with a privilege management mechanism in 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 can also successfully exploit a race condition, which makes this vulnerability difficult to exploit.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 30.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-250
Status published
Products (1)
paloaltonetworks/globalprotect 6.0.0 - 6.0.12
Published Apr 11, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026