CVE-2020-12612

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    CVE-2020-12612

    Published: 12 Dec 2023Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , https://www.beyondtrust.com/support/changelog/privilege-management-for-windows-5-6-sr1, https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-09

    Affected packages

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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