CVE-2026-0278 (GCVE-0-2026-0278)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-09 19:12
Modified
2026-07-11 03:55
Severity ?
5.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/AU:N/R:A/V:C/RE:H/U:Amber
CWE
  • CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
Summary
Multiple protection mechanism failures in the Prisma Access Agent Data Loss Prevention (DLP) component for Windows allow a local user to bypass DLP policy enforcement controls. The Prisma Access Agent on macOS is not affected.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access Agent Version: 24.0   < 26.2.1
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