Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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"versionEndExcluding": "5.6"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:beyondtrust:privilege_management_for_windows:5.6:-:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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"operator": "OR"
}
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