CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
9.0%
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.
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
beyondtrust | privilege_management_for_windows | * | cpe:2.3:a:beyondtrust:privilege_management_for_windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
beyondtrust | privilege_management_for_windows | 5.6 | cpe:2.3:a:beyondtrust:privilege_management_for_windows:5.6:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |