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CVE-2020-1988

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

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.0.5, 4.1.13
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

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;

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent

    From 5.0 · fixed in 5.0.5; From 4.1 · fixed in 4.1.13

References 1

security.paloaltonetworks.com