CVE-2024-9473

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.

CVSS 5.2 · Medium

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Metadata

Canonical fields

NVD status

Unavailable

Published

Oct 9, 2024

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Official record

Authoritative NVD record

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber

CWE IDs

Vendor classifications

How this vector reads

CVSS 4.0 base metrics decoded below. This explanation does not recalculate or change the NVD score.

Attack Vector (AV): Local. The attacker needs local access to the vulnerable system.
Attack Complexity (AC): Low. No special conditions beyond the attacker-controlled steps are required.
Attack Requirements (AT): Present. A prerequisite deployment or execution condition must be present.
Privileges Required (PR): Low. The attacker needs basic user-level privileges.
User Interaction (UI): None. Exploitation does not require a targeted user to act.
Vulnerable System Confidentiality (VC): None. There is no direct impact to this security property.
Vulnerable System Integrity (VI): Low. There is a limited impact to this security property.
Vulnerable System Availability (VA): None. There is no direct impact to this security property.
Subsequent System Confidentiality (SC): High. There is a total or serious impact to this security property.
Subsequent System Integrity (SI): High. There is a total or serious impact to this security property.
Subsequent System Availability (SA): High. There is a total or serious impact to this security property.

Optional CVSS v4 metrics remain in the raw vector; only base metrics are expanded here.

Signals

Exploitation indicators

0 stored signals · no KEV · 0 OTX pulses