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    CVE-2020-12612

    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.

    Published:Dec 12, 2023
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Dec 12, 2023
    EPSS Score:0.00189
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Beyondtrust
    Product
    Privilege Management For Windows

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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