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CVE-2025-0120

HIGH CVSS: 7.0 Published: 2025-04-11 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

A vulnerability with a privilege management mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app on Windows devices allows a locally authenticated non-administrative Windows user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. However, execution requires that the local user can also successfully exploit a race condition, which makes this vulnerability difficult to exploit.

Affected Platforms

Paloaltonetworks Globalprotect

Weakness Type

CWE-250

References