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CVE-2026-0294

⚠️ high
Summary

A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent app on Windows and macOS devices enables a local user to execute code with elevated privileges. The Prisma Access Agent on Linux, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS is not affected.

CVSS Score
7.8
High
EPSS Score
0.1
Exploit Probability
Published Date
2026-08-13
First Seen: 2026-08-14
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Moderate Risk - more severe than 68.5% of all 365,968 vulnerabilities in our database.

#115,144
Above average severity
Severity Percentile
🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Aug 13, 2026
🔍 Exploitation Status
None
No known exploits
⚙️ Automatable
NO
Requires human interaction
💥 Technical Impact
Total
Complete system compromise possible
🏆 Discovered By
Michael Garrison of State Farm Information Security KBTG Cybersecurity Researcher Engineers: Nuttakorn Tungpoonsup, Jirawat Siengphao, Khanatip Vanjongkham, and Waris Damkham
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:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Vector 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/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:A/V:C/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-2026-0293 🔶 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-2026-0277 🔶 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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