Vulnerability in Beyondtrust Privilege Management For Windows
CVE-2020-12612
An issue was discovered in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows through 5.6. When specifying a program to elevate, it can typically be found within the Program Files (x86) folder and therefore uses the %ProgramFiles(x86)% environment variable. However, when this same policy gets pushed to a 32bit machine, this environment variable does not exist. Therefore, since the standard user can create a user level environment variable, they can repoint this variable to any folder the user has full control of. Then, the folder structure can be created in such a way that a rule matches and arbitrary code runs elevated.
EPSS: 0.003 (17.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Beyondtrust Privilege_management_for_windows — versions 5.6
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Release Notes)
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-12612?
- CVE-2020-12612 is a high-severity vulnerability in Beyondtrust Privilege Management For Windows. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2023-12-12.
- How severe is CVE-2020-12612?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.