CVE-2026-0294 PUBLISHED

Prisma Access Agent: Local Privilege Escalation

Assigner: palo_alto
Reserved: 03.11.2025 Published: 13.08.2026 Updated: 13.08.2026

A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent app on Windows and macOS devices enables a local user to execute code with elevated privileges.

The Prisma Access Agent on Linux, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS is not affected.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:A/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber
CVSS Score: 6

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	None
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	Palo Alto Networks
Product	Prisma Access Agent
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 26.3 (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

Michael Garrison of State Farm Information Security finder
KBTG Cybersecurity Researcher Engineers: Nuttakorn Tungpoonsup, Jirawat Siengphao, Khanatip Vanjongkham, and Waris Damkham finder

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0294

Problem Types

CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation