CVE-2020-1988CWE-428

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

Medium · published April 8, 2020

CVSS v3.1
4.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
29.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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;

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.2 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00370 · 29.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-428 · Unquoted Search Path or Element
Published
2020-04-08T18:41Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 APR 18:41Z
    Global Protect Agent: Local privilege escalation due to an unquoted search path vulnerability
    cvelistv5