CVE-2026-0293: CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure in Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access Agent
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.
CVE-2026-0293: CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure in Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access Agent
Description
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.
CVSS v4.0
Score 5.6medium
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- palo_alto
- Date Reserved
- 2025-11-03T20:44:51.366Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a7d2ee9bf8831d5398db873
Added to database: 08/13/2026, 02:41:45 UTC
Last updated: 08/13/2026, 02:41:45 UTC
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