Local privilege escalation via repair process hijacking
Published Feb 16, 2024 · Updated Aug 28, 2024
Privilege assignment flaw in BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Windows before 24.1 allows local users to run arbitrary programs elevated. The repair workflow exposes an elevated process that a low-privileged repair initiator can hijack to launch an arbitrary program. Reachability requires local authentication and permission to initiate repair; anti-tamper and policy restrictions mitigate the attack, and successful exploitation grants elevated execution.
Summary
What happened
Privilege assignment flaw in BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Windows before 24.1 allows local users to run arbitrary programs elevated. The repair workflow exposes an elevated process that a low-privileged repair initiator can hijack to launch an arbitrary program. Reachability requires local authentication and permission to initiate repair; anti-tamper and policy restrictions mitigate the attack, and successful exploitation grants elevated execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-25083
- Published
- Feb 16, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 28, 2024
- Vendor
- BeyondTrust
- Product
- Endpoint Privilege Management for Windows
- Classifications
- CWE-266, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 16, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 28, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <24.1
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