CVE-2026-0251

published 2026-05-13

CVE-2026-0251: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app allow a local user to escalate their privileges to NT…

Priority P4 33 medium 5.9 CVSS 4.0

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Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app allow a local user to escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Windows and root on macOS and Linux. This enables a non-administrative user to execute arbitrary commands with administrative privileges.

The GlobalProtect app on iOS, Android, Chrome OS and GlobalProtect UWP app are not affected.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
palo_alto_networks	globalprotect_app	>= 6.0.0 < 6.0.13	6.0.13
palo_alto_networks	globalprotect_app	>= 6.0.0 < 6.0.11	6.0.11
palo_alto_networks	globalprotect_app	>= 6.2.0 < 6.2.8-h10 (6.2.8-948)	6.2.8-h10 (6.2.8-948)
palo_alto_networks	globalprotect_app	>= 6.3.0 < 6.3.3-h9 (6.3.3-999)	6.3.3-h9 (6.3.3-999)
palo_alto_networks	globalprotect_app	>= 6.3.0 < 6.3.3-h2 (6.3.3-42)	6.3.3-h2 (6.3.3-42)
paloalto	global_protect_app	—	—
paloalto	globalprotect_app	—	—

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