CVE-2024-12356

BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS): Command Injection

As of , CVE-2024-12356 in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.

Exploited
Yes: CISA listed it on 19 December 2024
US federal deadline
27 December 20248 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
Used in ransomware campaigns
Not known to CISA
EPSS score
0.87Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS when listed
0.00 on 19 December 2024EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
Public exploit
1 Metasploit module
Fix
Vendor advice: www.beyondtrust.comLinks below, from CISA's entry.

What CISA says to do

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA's required action

What the flaw is

BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) contain a command injection vulnerability, which can allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject commands that are run as a site user.

CISA's description

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products which can allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject commands that are run as a site user.

The CVE record's description, from BT

CVE published
17 December 2024
Assigned by
BT
CVSS
9.8 Critical (CVSS 3.1, from the CNA)
CWE-77
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
CISA SSVC, exploitation
active
CISA SSVC, automatable
yes
CISA SSVC, technical impact
total

Timeline

  1. The CVE record was published.
  2. CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  3. The US federal deadline to fix it.

Public exploits

Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.

  • Metasploit: BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) unauthenticated Remote Code Executionexploit module, rank excellent

Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS): other exploited entries

VulnerabilityProductOur groupListedDeadlineEPSS
CVE-2024-12686OS Command InjectionBeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS)Patch soon0.14

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