AntiTamper Bypass in Palo Alto Prisma Access Agent (Windows)
CVE-2026-0293 Published on August 13, 2026

Prisma Access Agent: Anti-Tamper Protection Bypass on Windows
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.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2026-0293 can be exploited with local system access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
HIGH
User Interaction:
NONE

Timeline

Initial publication.

Weakness Type

Protection Mechanism Failure

The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. This weakness covers three distinct situations. A "missing" protection mechanism occurs when the application does not define any mechanism against a certain class of attack. An "insufficient" protection mechanism might provide some defenses - for example, against the most common attacks - but it does not protect against everything that is intended. Finally, an "ignored" mechanism occurs when a mechanism is available and in active use within the product, but the developer has not applied it in some code path.


Products Associated with CVE-2026-0293

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Affected Versions

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