CVE-2026-0278 PUBLISHED

Prisma Access Agent: Multiple DLP Policy Bypass Vulnerabilities on Windows

Assigner: palo_alto
Reserved: 03.11.2025 Published: 09.07.2026 Updated: 10.07.2026

Multiple protection mechanism failures in the Prisma Access Agent Data Loss Prevention (DLP) component for Windows allow a local user to bypass DLP policy enforcement controls.

The Prisma Access Agent on macOS is 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:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:A/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber
CVSS Score: 5.8

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	None	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 24.0 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 this issue.

Workarounds

No known workarounds exist for this issue.

Credits

Daniel Cuthbert and Vladislav Ovitchinikov from Banco Santander finder

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0278

Problem Types

CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-212 Functionality Misuse