CVE-2020-1989highCWE-266

CVE-2020-1989: high-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent

Global Protect Agent: Incorrect privilege assignment allows local privilege escalation

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

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An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability when writing application-specific files in the Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent for Linux on ARM platform allows a local authenticated user to gain root privileges on the system. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent for Linux 5.0 versions before 5.0.8; 5.1 versions before 5.1.1.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H