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CVE record · CVE-2020-1988

Global Protect Agent: Local privilege escalation due to an unquoted search path vulnerability

CVSS 4.2 MediumEPSS 0.0037 · 31st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: palo_alto) at 8 Apr 2020, 18:41 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks Global Protect Agent
  • affected 5.0 to before 5.0.5 custom
  • affected 4.1 to before 4.1.13 custom
Identifiers
CVE-2020-1988
CNA
palo_alto
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-428
Tags
Published
8 Apr 2020
Updated
16 Sept 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
4.2 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CNA (palo_alto)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0037, the 31st percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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