CVE-2025-4232

CVE-2025-4232 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the log collection feature of the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect app on macOS. An attacker can exploit an improper neutralization of wildcards to escalate privileges from a non-administrative user to root. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation.