CVE-2025-4232
An improper neutralization of wildcards vulnerability in the log collection feature of Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app on macOS allows a non administrative user to escalate their privileges to root.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.5
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
- EPSS probability
- 0.42%
- CWE
- CWE-155
- Published
- 2025-06-12
- 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
Weakness type
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