CVE-2024-5915
GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- palo_alto
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By palo_alto
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium5.2 | 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/AU:N/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | Medium5.2 | 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:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 89% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.2.
Weakness
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · GlobalProtect App
- affected 5.1
- affected 6.0
- affected 6.1 – < 6.1.5
- affected 6.2 – < 6.2.4
- affected 6.3 – < 6.3.1
What to do
Solution: This issue is fixed in GlobalProtect app 5.1.x (ETA: December 2024), GlobalProtect app 6.0.x (ETA: November 2024), GlobalProtect app 6.1.5, GlobalProtect app 6.2.4, GlobalProtect app 6.3.1 (ETA: end of August), and all later GlobalProtect app versions on Windows.
Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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