CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-0295
4.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-10-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 4.1 MEDIUM — 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/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])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• paloaltonetworks globalprotect (< 6.0.15)
• paloaltonetworks globalprotect (>= 6.2.0 < 6.2.8)
• paloaltonetworks globalprotect (>= 6.3.0 < 6.3.3)
• paloaltonetworks globalprotect 6.2.8
• paloaltonetworks globalprotect 6.3.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0295 Vendor Advisory