01 Record
CVE-2020-2032
GlobalProtect App: File race condition vulnerability leads to local privilege escalation during upgrade
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: palo_alto
CNA base score7.0 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
02 Description
GlobalProtect App: File race condition vulnerability leads to local privilege escalation during upgrade
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.22% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 12.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-06-10 17:29Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 02:27Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-12-04
- Assigning CNA
- palo_alto
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.0)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race ConditionBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- df4e7aca72e71fcc2be7c95a039c5d1d21150f0980ad7a9d9d2a032a37c4c9f2
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- security.paloaltonetworks.comhttps://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-2032
07 Remediation
This issue is fixed in GlobalProtect app 5.0.10, GlobalProtect app 5.1.4, and all later GlobalProtect app versions.