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

[ Why it matters ]Priority signals

• Exploited in the wild: on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since 2024-12-19
• EPSS: 87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (higher than 100% of CVEs)
• Critical severity: CVSS 9.8

[ Description ]Official 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.

CISA: 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.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

CISA required action (US federal deadline 27 Dec 2024): Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12356Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
• www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt24-10Vendor Advisory
• www.cve.org/CVERecordThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
• attackerkb.com/topics/G5s8ZWAbYH/cve-2024-12356/rapid7-analysisExploitThird Party Advisory
• www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalogUS Government Resource