🛡️ CVE-2026-0246 — prisma-access-agent

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-862 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-0246 is classified as CWE-862: Missing Authorization. No authorisation check is performed before carrying out a restricted action.

Affected software

CVE-2026-0246 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • prisma-access-agent (fixed in 26.2.1)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2026 and last revised on 14 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-862
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-13
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-14
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
prisma-access-agent — 26.2.1
unknown — —

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