CVE-2026-0246 PUBLISHED

Prisma Access Agent: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Assigner: palo_alto
Reserved: 03.11.2025 Published: 13.05.2026 Updated: 13.05.2026

A vulnerability with a privilege management mechanism in the Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access Agent® enables a locally authenticated non-administrative user to escalate their privileges to root on macOS and Linux or NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Windows. This allows the user to execute arbitrary code and read sensitive information otherwise accessible only to privileged accounts.

The Prisma Access Agent on iOS, Android and Chrome OS are not affected.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

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
CVSS Score: 5.9

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Local	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	Palo Alto Networks
Product	Prisma Access Agent
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 26.2.1 (excl.)

Vendor	Palo Alto Networks
Product	Prisma Access Agent
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 26.2.1 (excl.)

Vendor	Palo Alto Networks
Product	Prisma Access Agent
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 26.2.1 (excl.)

Vendor	Palo Alto Networks
Product	Prisma Access Agent
Versions	Default: unaffected Version All is unaffected

Exploits

Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of these issues.

Credits

Palo Alto Networks thanks our internal security research teams for discovering and reporting this issue. other

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0246

Problem Types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation