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CVE-2024-9473

Published: Oct 9, 2024

Modified: Oct 18, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks	GlobalProtect App	affected `5.1` affected `6.0` affected `6.1` affected `6.2.0 - < 6.2.5` affected `6.3`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2024-9473

vendor-advisory

https://sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/advisory/local-privilege-escalation-via-msi-installer-in-palo-alto-networks-globalprotect/

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