CVE-2026-0315
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app enables a…
- Risk score
- 46/100
- CVSS
- 5.9 v4.0
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.1%
- Published
- 14 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app enables a local user to escalate their privileges to root on macOS. This enables a non-administrative user to execute arbitrary commands with administrative privileges. The GlobalProtect app on Linux, Windows, iOS, Android and Chro…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 5.9 medium
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References
Original description
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app enables a local user to escalate their privileges to root on macOS. This enables a non-administrative user to execute arbitrary commands with administrative privileges. The GlobalProtect app on Linux, Windows, iOS, Android and Chrome OS is not affected by this vulnerability.
Last activity 14 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.