CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-0293

Protection Mechanism Failure

Published: Aug 13, 2026 | Modified: Sep 09, 2026
CVSS 3.x
6
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Access Agent on Windows enables a local attacker with administrator privileges to bypass the anti-tamper protection, enabling unauthorized access to protected processes and files.

The Prisma Access Agent on Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS is not affected.

Weakness

The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Prisma_access_agentPaloaltonetworks*26.3 (excluding)

References