What is GHSA-h94g-f37w-qxpj?

GHSA-h94g-f37w-qxpj is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-h94g-f37w-qxpj cover?

GHSA-h94g-f37w-qxpj covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-0251. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-h94g-f37w-qxpj?

GHSA-h94g-f37w-qxpj has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-h94g-f37w-qxpjMediumCVSS 7.8

Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 13, 2026

Last Modified

July 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-0251 →

📋 Description

Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect™ app allow 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.

The GlobalProtect app on iOS, Android, Chrome OS and GlobalProtect UWP app are not affected.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0251
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0251
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h94g-f37w-qxpj