CVE-2020-1989CWE-266

Global Protect Agent: Incorrect privilege assignment allows local privilege escalation

High · published April 8, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability when writing application-specific files in the Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent for Linux on ARM platform allows a local authenticated user to gain root privileges on the system. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent for Linux 5.0 versions before 5.0.8; 5.1 versions before 5.1.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.0 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00265 · 17.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Published
2020-04-08T18:41Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 APR 18:41Z
    Global Protect Agent: Incorrect privilege assignment allows local privilege escalation
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