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CVE-2026-0293

🔶 medium
Summary

A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent on Windows enables a local attacker with administrator privileges to bypass the anti-tamper protection, enabling unauthorized access to protected processes and files. The Prisma Access Agent on Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.

CVSS Score
6.0
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 33.5% of all 365,968 vulnerabilities in our database.

#243,217
Below average severity
Severity Percentile
🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Aug 13, 2026
🔍 Exploitation Status
None
No known exploits
⚙️ Automatable
NO
Requires human interaction
💥 Technical Impact
Partial
Limited system impact
🏆 Discovered By
Palo Alto Networks thanks Daniel Cuthbert and Vladislav Ovitchinikov from Banco Santander for discovering and reporting this issue.
SSVC data provided by CISA
Last Modified 2026-09-09
Source NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Vector 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/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:X/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

📦 Affected Products 1

🔗 References 1

🔗 Related CVEs 6

CVE ID Severity CVSS EPSS Summary Published
CVE-2026-0291 🔶 medium 4.4 0.1 An improper link resolution before file access vulnerability exists in the Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent on L... 2026-08-13
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-2026-0294 ⚠️ 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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