CVE-2026-0295GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation via Race Condition on macOS
- 4.1MediumCVSS base score
- 0.11%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 99% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A race condition in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ client on macOS enables a locally authenticated low-privileged attacker to escalate their privileges to root. The GlobalProtect app on Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.
Timeline
ID reserved
By palo_alto
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| palo_altoCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium4.1 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 4.0 | Medium4.1 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/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:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.11% · top 99% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.1.
Affected products
Palo Alto Networks · GlobalProtect App
- affected 6.3.0 – < 6.3.3-h14 (6.3.3-1121)
- affected 6.2.0 – < 6.2.8-h13 (6.2.8-1045)
- affected 6.0.0 – < 6.0.15
Palo Alto Networks · GlobalProtect App
- unaffected All
What to do
Solution: VERSION MINOR VERSION SUGGESTED SOLUTION GlobalProtect App 6.3 on macOS 6.3.0 through 6.3.3-h13 Upgrade to 6.3.3-h14 (6.3.3-1121) or later. GlobalProtect App 6.2 on macOS 6.2.0 through 6.2.8-h12 Upgrade to 6.2.8-h13 (6.2.8-1045) or later. GlobalProtect App 6.0 on macOS 6.0.0 through 6.0.14 Upgrade to 6.0.15 or later. GlobalProtect App on Linux No action needed. GlobalProtect App on Windows No action needed. GlobalProtect App on iOS No action needed. GlobalProtect App on Android No action needed. GlobalProtect App on Chrome OS No action needed.
Workaround: No known workarounds or mitigations exist for this issue.
Exploitation: Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue.
References
References1
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-57709 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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