CVE-2024-9473 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2024-9473

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability

5.2 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on Windows allows a locally authenticated non-administrative Windows user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM through the use of the repair functionality offered by the .msi file used to install GlobalProtect.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Michael Baer of SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab
Marc Barrantes of KPMG Spain

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Affected Vendor

Palo Alto Networks

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Affected Software

GlobalProtect App

Vulnerable Versions:

5.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2.0, 6.3

Timeline

Official Publish: October 9th, 2024

Last Modified: October 18th, 2024

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation

T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism

Defense Evasion

T1078 Valid Accounts

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow

Privilege Escalation

T1485 Data Destruction