CVE-2024-2432
GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
- Published
- Mar 13, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 28, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- palo_alto
- Evidence observed
- Aug 5, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 32.5%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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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.
Sources
1Proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2024-2432 demonstrating local privilege escalation on Windows via arbitrary file delete through symbolic link attack in Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN client.
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