🛡️ CVE-2026-0278 — prisma-access-agent

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-693 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Multiple protection mechanism failures in the Prisma Access Agent Data Loss Prevention (DLP) component for Windows allow a local user to bypass DLP policy enforcement controls.

The Prisma Access Agent on macOS is 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-2026-0278 is classified as CWE-693: Protection Mechanism Failure. A protection exists but does not cover the case at hand, so it can be worked around.

Affected software

CVE-2026-0278 is recorded against 1 package.

  • prisma-access-agent (fixed in 26.2.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 July 2026 and last revised on 16 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-693
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-09
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

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

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