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CVE-2026-0275 (GCVE-0-2026-0275)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-09 19:19 – Updated: 2026-07-14 14:32
VLAI
Title
Prisma Browser: Local Privilege Escalation on macOS
Summary
A local privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Prisma® Browser allows a locally authenticated administrator with access to the macOS local filesystem to perform actions on the device with root privileges. This issue only affects Prisma® Browser on macOS.
Severity
2 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:U/V:D/RE:M/U:Amber
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-10 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Browser Affected: 150.33.2.0 , < 150.33.2.46 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:palo_alto_networks:prisma_browser:*:*:macos:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2026-07-08 16:00
Credits
Palo Alto Networks thanks Kun Peeks (@SwayZGl1tZyyy) for discovering and reporting this issue.
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}



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Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.