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PALO ALTO NETWORKS FIXED MULTIPLE PRIVILEGE ESCALATION FLAWS

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Palo Alto Networks fixed seven privilege escalation vulnerabilities in its products, the most severe of which was CVE-2025-4232 (CVSS 7.1), which allows non-administrative macOS users to escalate privileges to root through a wildcard vulnerability in GlobalProtect's log collection feature. The company also patched two authenticated admin command injection flaws in PAN-OS (CVE-2025-4231 and CVE-2025-4230) that enabled authenticated administrators to execute commands as root users. Palo Alto also integrated 11 Chrome security patches and addressed a cache vulnerability in Prisma Access Browser. There were no known active exploits of these vulnerabilities.