CVE-2026-0295 — GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation via Race Condition on macOS

CVE-2026-0295

GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation via Race Condition on macOS PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Palo Alto Networks / GlobalProtect App	affected 6.3.0 before 6.3.3-h14 (6.3.3-1121); affected 6.2.0 before 6.2.8-h13 (6.2.8-1045); affected 6.0.0 before 6.0.15
Palo Alto Networks / GlobalProtect App	unaffected All

CWE

CWE-362

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0295

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.