🛡️ CVE-2026-0251 — globalprotect

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-426 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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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.

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-2026-0251 is classified as CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path. The product resolves a library or executable using a search path an attacker can influence.

Affected software

CVE-2026-0251 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • globalprotect
  • 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-426
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
globalprotect — —
unknown — —

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