CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-1989
High (7.8) in paloaltonetworks globalprotect. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability when writing application-specific files in the Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent for Linux on ARM platform allows a local authenticated user to gain root privileges on the system. This issue affects Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent for Linux 5.0 versions before 5.0.8; 5.1 versions before 5.1.1.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 18% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CWEs
- CWE-269, CWE-266
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- paloaltonetworks:globalprotect