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CVE-2025-2179

GlobalProtect App: Non Admin User Can Disable the GlobalProtect App

No known exploitation. EPSS puts it in the 3rd percentile. Fixed versions are out.

CVSS 3.15.5MediumEPSS percentile3rd0.1% chance in 30 daysCISA KEVNot listedNo confirmed exploitation
No public exploit knownFix2 products2 fixed builds listed below

Published Updated Sources: CVE.org, NVD, BDU

NVD CVE.org

What to do

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  • Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect AppAffected: ≥ 6.2.0, < 6.2.9Upgrade to: 6.2.9Affected: 6.1.0Upgrade to: not statedAffected: 6.0.0Upgrade to: not statedStated by: CVE record
  • Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect UWP AppFixed buildsAllStated by: CVE record

Versions as the sources state them. Full version matrix after sign-in

What it is

From the CVE record

An incorrect privilege assignment vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ App on Linux devices enables a locally authenticated non administrative user to disable the app even if the GlobalProtect app configuration would not normally permit them to do so. The GlobalProtect app on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Chrome OS and GlobalProtect UWP app are not affected.

In plain language

No plain-language summary for this CVE yet.

Exploitation

Where each signal puts this CVE on the scale from published to confirmed exploited.

EPSS3rd
CISA KEV

Not in the catalog. CISA has not confirmed exploitation.

Public exploits

No public exploit or proof of concept found in the sources we track.

EPSS

0.1% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the 3rd percentile of scored CVEs.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST.org. A probability, not a confirmation.

Lifecycle

5 events over 2 days, from the signal feeds we watch.

  1. Patch availableworkaround available, record updated
  2. Publishedweakness classified

Affected products

Technical detail

CVSS 3.1 vector

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

Scored 5.5 by bdu.

How it is reached

  • Access Vector LocalRequires local access
  • Access Complexity LowNo special conditions required

Impact if exploited

  • Confidentiality NoneNo confidentiality impact
  • Integrity NoneNo integrity impact
  • Availability H

Weaknesses

Sources

References in the record

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