GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

published 2026-05-13 5 mo ago modified 2026-10-26 13 d ago also EUVD-2026-30102

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits: 0; none known

Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app allow 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, Chrome OS and GlobalProtect UWP app are not affected.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App 6.0.11, 6.0.13, 6.2.8-h10 (6.2.8-948), 6.3.3-h2 (6.3.3-42), 6.3.3-h9 (6.3.3-999)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 5 mo ago (2026-05-13)

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	4.0	5.9	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
CNA	4.0	5.9	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
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App
Palo Alto Networks Global Protect App

Classification

Weakness

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com /CVE-2026-0251
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-0251
NVD CVE-2026-0251

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Summary