Administrator escalation via elevated WMIC service stop
Published Jul 28, 2025 · Updated Jul 28, 2025
Anti-tamper bypass in BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Windows before 25.4.270.0 allows local users to gain administrator rights. An elevated wmic.exe process running with a full administrator token can stop the Avecto Defendpoint Service despite its anti-tamper protection. Exploitation requires local authenticated access and an approved full-token WMIC elevation; disabling the service permits persistent Administrators-group membership and arbitrary elevated process execution.
Summary
What happened
Anti-tamper bypass in BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management for Windows before 25.4.270.0 allows local users to gain administrator rights. An elevated wmic.exe process running with a full administrator token can stop the Avecto Defendpoint Service despite its anti-tamper protection. Exploitation requires local authenticated access and an approved full-token WMIC elevation; disabling the service permits persistent Administrators-group membership and arbitrary elevated process execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-6250
- Published
- Jul 28, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 28, 2025
- Vendor
- BeyondTrust
- Product
- Endpoint Privilege Management for Windows
- Classifications
- CWE-424, CAPEC-233, T1562.001
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Jul 28, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <<25.4.270
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