CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-9473

5.2 MEDIUM Published 2024-10-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2024-10-09
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected]): 5.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses: CWE-250

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows allows a locally authenticated non-administrative Windows user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM through the use of the repair functionality offered by the .msi file used to install GlobalProtect.

Affected configurations

• paloaltonetworks globalprotect (>= 5.1 < 6.2.5) • paloaltonetworks globalprotect 6.3.0 • paloaltonetworks globalprotect 6.3.1

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges weakness

References

https://sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/advisory/local-privilege-escalation-via-msi-installer-in-palo-alto-networks-globalprotect/ sec-consult.com
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9473 Vendor Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Oct/2 seclists.org

CVE-2024-9473

Description

Affected configurations

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

References