GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities (Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App)

CVE-2026-0299
MEDIUM 5.9

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
palo_alto
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtectâ„¢ 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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-426 — Untrusted Search Path

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.9CVSS: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:Amberpalo_alto
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 5.9CVSS: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/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:AmberNVD · psirt@paloaltonetworks.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Palo Alto Networks · GlobalProtect Appaffected 6.3.0 < 6.3.3-h15 ; affected 6.2.0 ; affected 6.0.0 < 6.0.15
Palo Alto Networks · GlobalProtect Appaffected 6.3.0 < 6.3.3-h14 ; affected 6.2.0 < 6.2.8-h13 ; affected 6.0.0 < 6.0.15
Palo Alto Networks · GlobalProtect Appunaffected All

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD