CVE-2026-0299 PUBLISHED

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

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

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.

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	GlobalProtect App
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 6.3.0 to 6.3.3-h15 (excl.) Version 6.2.0 is affected affected from 6.0.0 to 6.0.15 (excl.)

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

Exploits

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

Credits

our internal security research teams finder

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0299

Problem Types

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation