CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-12612
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-12-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• beyondtrust privilege management for windows (< 5.6)
• beyondtrust privilege management for windows 5.6
References
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/support/changelog/privilege-management-for-windows-5-6-sr1 Release Notes
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-09 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/support/changelog/privilege-management-for-windows-5-6-sr1 Release Notes
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-09 Vendor Advisory