CVE-2020-2032High

CVE-2020-2032 GlobalProtect App: File race condition vulnerability leads to local privilege escalation during upgrade

Published
June 10, 2020
Last Modified
June 10, 2020

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A race condition vulnerability Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows allows a local limited Windows user to execute programs with SYSTEM privileges. This issue can be exploited only while performing a GlobalProtect app upgrade.

This issue affects: GlobalProtect app 5.0 versions earlier than GlobalProtect app 5.0.10 on Windows; GlobalProtect app 5.1 versions earlier than GlobalProtect app 5.1.4 on Windows.

🎯 Affected products1

  • GlobalProtect App

✅ Remediation

This issue is fixed in GlobalProtect app 5.0.10, GlobalProtect app 5.1.4, and all later GlobalProtect app versions.

🔗 References (1)