CVE-2024-2432 (GCVE-0-2024-2432)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-13 17:51 – Updated: 2024-08-28 15:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
Summary
A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows devices enables a local user to execute programs with elevated privileges. However, execution requires that the local user is able to successfully exploit a race condition.
Severity
4.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-03-13 19:57 UTC
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palo Alto Networks | GlobalProtect App |
Affected:
5.1 , < 5.1.12
(custom)
Affected: 6.0 , < 6.0.8 (custom) Affected: 6.1 , < 6.1.2 (custom) Affected: 6.2 , < 6.2.1 (custom) |
guessed | |
| paloaltonetworks | globalprotect |
Affected:
5.1 , < 5.1.12
(custom)
Affected: 6.0 , < 6.0.8 (custom) Affected: 6.1 , < 6.1.2 (custom) Affected: 6.2 , < 6.2.1 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Date Public
2024-03-13 16:00
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- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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