CVE-2025-4232

⚠️ high

Summary

An improper neutralization of wildcards vulnerability in the log collection feature of Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app on macOS allows a non administrative user to escalate their privileges to root.

CVSS Score

8.8

High

EPSS Score

0.1

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2025-06-13

First Seen: 2026-01-05

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is High Risk - more severe than 80.9% of all 344,912 vulnerabilities in our database.

#65,926

Top 25% most severe

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jun 13, 2025

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Total

Complete system compromise possible

🏆 Discovered By

Rutger Flohil

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2025-06-27

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS Vector 4.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/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:D/RE:M/U:Amber

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-155

📦 Affected Products 2

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
paloaltonetworks	globalprotect	Affected	≥ 6.0.0 < 6.2.8
paloaltonetworks	globalprotect	Affected	≥ 6.3.0 < 6.3.3

🔗 References 1

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2025-4232

Vendor Advisory

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