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MEDIUM

CVE-2026-0307

CVE-2026-0307 — GlobalProtect App: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app allows 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. This GlobalProtect app on iOS, Android and ChromeOS is not impacted.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, palo_alto

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

0%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

Palo Alto

globalprotect_app

CVSS base

5.9

MEDIUM

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

No

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Total

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

Palo Alto

Products (1)

globalprotect app

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
5.9CVSS 4.0MEDIUM——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-426

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1574.007Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable
  • T1574.009Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by Unquoted Path

References

1 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.