CVE-2026-0299
Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app enable a local user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Windows, and root on macOS and Linux. This enables a non-administrative user to execute arbitrary commands with administrative privileges. The GlobalProtect app on iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 5.9
- CVSS vector
- 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:U/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
- EPSS probability
- 0.20%
- CWE
- CWE-426
- Published
- 2026-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-08-13
Affected products
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App
- Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App
Weakness type
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