GlobalProtect: Authenticated Code Injection Through Wildcard on macOS

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• paloaltonetworks globalprotect6.0.0 and later · before 6.2.8
• paloaltonetworks globalprotect6.3.0 and later · before 6.3.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (palo_alto). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App

  • Allnot affected
  • 6.1.0, 6.0.0affected
  • 6.3 and later · before 6.3.3affectedfixed in 6.3.3
  • 6.2.0 and later · before 6.2.8-h2affectedfixed in 6.2.8-h2

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2021-3057GlobalProtect App: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability When Connecting to Portal or Gateway
  32Monitor
• CVE-2023-0009GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
  31Monitor
• CVE-2022-0017GlobalProtect App: Improper Link Resolution Vulnerability Leads to Local Privilege Escalation
  31Monitor
• CVE-2022-0016GlobalProtect App: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability When Using Connect Before Logon
  31Monitor
• CVE-2020-1989Global Protect Agent: Incorrect privilege assignment allows local privilege escalation
  31Monitor
• CVE-2025-0120GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation (PE) Vulnerability
  28Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.