CVE-2026-0291

🔶 medium

Summary

An improper link resolution before file access vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent on Linux platforms that enables a local low privileged user to delete system files in a limited scope and disable Prisma Access Agent. The Prisma Access Agent on macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.

CVSS Score

4.4

Medium

EPSS Score

0.1

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-08-13

First Seen: 2026-08-14

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 11.4% of all 365,968 vulnerabilities in our database.

#324,375

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Aug 13, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

🏆 Discovered By

an internal reporter

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-09-09

Source NVD 🔗

CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CVSS Vector 4.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-59

📦 Affected Products 1

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
paloaltonetworks	prisma_access_agent	Affected	< 26.2.2

🔗 References 1

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0291

Vendor Advisory

🔗 Related CVEs 6

CVE ID	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Summary	Published
CVE-2026-0292	🔶 medium	6.0	0.1	An authentication bypass vulnerability in the network driver of Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent on Windows enab...	2026-08-13
CVE-2026-0293	🔶 medium	6.0	0.1	A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent on Windows enables a local attacker with administrator privi...	2026-08-13
CVE-2026-0294	⚠️ high	7.8	0.1	A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent app on Windows and macOS devic...	2026-08-13
CVE-2026-0277	🔶 medium	5.9	0.2	An improper certificate validation vulnerability in the Prisma® Access Agent for iOS enables an attacker to perform a m...	2026-07-09
CVE-2026-0278	⚠️ high	7.8	0.2	Multiple protection mechanism failures in the Prisma Access Agent Data Loss Prevention (DLP) component for Windows allow...	2026-07-09
CVE-2026-0268	🔶 medium	4.4	0.1	A security control bypass vulnerability in Prisma Access Agent for Linux allows a local attacker to route network traffi...	2026-06-10

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