CVE-2026-0295

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation via Race Condition on macOS

State: Published
Severity: 4.1 Medium
Published: Aug 13, 2026
Updated: Aug 13, 2026
Reserved: Nov 3, 2025

Description

A race condition in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ client on macOS enables a locally authenticated low-privileged attacker to escalate their privileges to root.

The GlobalProtect app on Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	4.1 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	6.3.0 to before 6.3.3-h14 (6.3.3-1121)Affectedfrom 6.3.3-h14Not affected 6.2.0 to before 6.2.8-h13 (6.2.8-1045)Affectedfrom 6.2.8-h13Not affected 6.0.0 to before 6.0.15Affectedfrom 6.0.15Not affected
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	AllNot affected

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0295vendor-advisory

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