02 Records
FEED: ACQUIRING
01 RecordSTATE: PUBLISHED
02 Description
CNA: palo_altoGlobalProtect App: Improper Link Resolution Vulnerability Leads to Local Privilege Escalation
03 Exploitation and scoring
SRC: CISA, FIRST, NVD, RED HAT- 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
- 0.28% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Ranks above 19.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/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.
SCHEMA: 5.1
- Published
- 2022-02-10 18:10Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 17:58Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-12-28
- 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-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 16f6f5bb60a06f6998b8cbac40dbf40a1a80a7a1ceb7b99933320a007393e12e
05 Affected products
PAIRS: 1VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
SRC: CNA
This issue is fixed in GlobalProtect app 5.1.10 on Windows, GlobalProtect app 5.2.5 on Windows and all later GlobalProtect app versions.