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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.9 Medium

CVE-2026-0251

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App

Default version status: unaffected

  • 6.3.0 to < 6.3.3-h9 (6.3.3-999)affected
  • 6.2.0 to < 6.2.8-h10 (6.2.8-948)affected
  • 6.0.0 to < 6.0.13affected

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App

Default version status: unaffected

  • 6.3.0 to < 6.3.3-h9 (6.3.3-999)affected
  • 6.2.0 to < 6.2.8-h10 (6.2.8-948)affected
  • 6.0.0 to < 6.0.13affected

Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect App

Default version status: unaffected

  • 6.3.0 to < 6.3.3-h2 (6.3.3-42)affected
  • 6.0.0 to < 6.0.11affected

Palo Alto Networks Global Protect App

Default version status: unaffected

  • Allunaffected

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