CVE-2026-0299

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

State: Published
Severity: 5.9 Medium
Published: Aug 13, 2026
Updated: Aug 13, 2026
Reserved: Nov 3, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.9 Medium	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	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	6.3.0 to before 6.3.3-h15Affectedfrom 6.3.3-h15Not affected 6.2.0Affected 6.0.0 to before 6.0.15Affectedfrom 6.0.15Not affected
GlobalProtect AppPalo Alto Networks	6.3.0 to before 6.3.3-h14Affectedfrom 6.3.3-h14Not affected 6.2.0 to before 6.2.8-h13Affectedfrom 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-2026-0299vendor-advisory

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