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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-0120

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber

Affected Products

Vendor: Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks

Product: GlobalProtect App, GlobalProtect App, GlobalProtect UWP App

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 2.51% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-20 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0120
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-0120

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