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CVE-2026-0299

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

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.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

Vendor advisories in the News 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 2026-10-23 19:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 52

  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:*:*:*:*:*:linux:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:-:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:-:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h10:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h10:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h11:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h11:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h12:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h12:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h2:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h2:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h3:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h3:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h4:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h4:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h5:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h5:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h6:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h6:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h7:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h7:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h8:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h8:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h9:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.2.8:h9:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:-:*:*:*:linux:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:-:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:-:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:h1:*:*:*:linux:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:h1:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:h1:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:h11:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:h11:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:h12:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:h12:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:h2:*:*:*:linux:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:h2:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:paloaltonetworks:globalprotect:6.3.3:h2:*:*:*:windows:*:*
  • and 12 more

References 1