CVE-2026-0295 PUBLISHED

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation via Race Condition on macOS

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

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.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: 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
CVSS Score: 4.1

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	Present	Availability	None	Availability	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	Palo Alto Networks
Product	GlobalProtect App
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 6.3.0 to 6.3.3-h14 (6.3.3-1121) (excl.) affected from 6.2.0 to 6.2.8-h13 (6.2.8-1045) (excl.) affected from 6.0.0 to 6.0.15 (excl.)

Vendor	Palo Alto Networks
Product	GlobalProtect App
Versions	Default: unaffected Version All is unaffected

Affected Configurations

No special configuration is required to be affected by this issue.

Exploits

Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.

Workarounds

No known workarounds or mitigations exist for this issue.

Credits

Alex Bourla and Graham Brereton finder

References

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

Problem Types

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

Impacts

CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions