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Description

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

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-03 | Published 2026-06-10 | Updated 2026-06-10 | Assigner palo_alto




MEDIUM: 5.9CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:A/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber

Problem types

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 26.2.1
affected

Default status
unaffected

All (custom)
unaffected

Timeline

2026-06-10:Initial publication.

Credits

Palo Alto Networks thanks our internal security research teams for discovering and reporting this issue. other

References

security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0271 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-0271)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-0271)

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