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CVE-2026-0246

5.9 medium SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed
NVD · CVE.org

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.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.9 · paloaltonetworksNVD modified 2026-10-26 14:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:prisma_access_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 1