CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-12612
High (7.8) in beyondtrust privilege management for windows. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 17% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- beyondtrust:privilege_management_for_windows
References
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/support/changelog/privilege-management-for-windows-5-6-sr1
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-09
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/support/changelog/privilege-management-for-windows-5-6-sr1
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-09