CVE-2020-1976

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2020-1976 · Published 12/02/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-1976 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting globalprotect (paloaltonetworks).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.28%, higher than 20.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
globalprotect paloaltonetworks	`≥ 5.0, ≤ 5.0.5`	No fix yet

Description

A denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect software running on Mac OS allows authenticated local users to cause the Mac OS kernel to hang or crash. This issue affects GlobalProtect 5.0.5 and earlier versions of GlobalProtect 5.0 on Mac OS.

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2020-1976 · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

globalprotect

paloaltonetworks

≥ 5.0, ≤ 5.0.5

No fix yet

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