CVE-2025-0141
An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ App on enables a locally authenticated non administrative user to escalate their privileges to root on macOS and Linux or NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Windows. The GlobalProtect app on iOS, Android, Chrome OS and GlobalProtect UWP app are not affected.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.4
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
- EPSS probability
- 0.17%
- CWE
- CWE-426
- Published
- 2025-07-09
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect UWP App
Weakness type
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