CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-0246

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2026-05-13 Modified 2026-10-26 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-05-13
Last modified
2026-10-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — 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/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-862

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• paloaltonetworks prisma access agent (< 26.2.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness

References