Privilege Management For Windows

A medium-severity vulnerability has been identified in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows versions <=25.7. Under certain conditions, a local authenticated user with elevated privileges may be able to bypass the product’s anti-tamper protections, which could allow access to protected application components and the ability to modify product configuration.

Published: 2026-02-02T16:18:47.242Z
Updated: 2026-02-02T16:35:48.876Z

Prior to 25.4.270.0, when wmic.exe is elevated with a full admin token the user can stop the Defendpoint service, bypassing anti-tamper protections. Once the service is disabled, the malicious user can add themselves to Administrators group and run any process with elevated permissions.

Published: 2025-07-28T15:40:28.381Z
Updated: 2025-07-28T17:22:45.226Z

Prior to version 25.4.270.0, a local authenticated attacker can manipulate user profile files to add illegitimate challenge response codes into the local user registry under certain conditions. This allows users with the ability to edit their user profile files to elevate their privileges to administrator.

Published: 2025-07-28T15:40:14.633Z
Updated: 2025-07-28T17:22:18.590Z

Prior to 25.2, a local authenticated attacker can elevate privileges on a system with Privilege Management for Windows installed, via the manipulation of COM objects under certain circumstances where an EPM policy allows for automatic privilege elevation of a user process.

Published: 2025-02-26T01:41:25.407Z
Updated: 2025-02-26T15:43:14.546Z

An issue was discovered in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows before 24.1. When an low-privileged user initiates a repair, there is an attack vector through which the user is able to execute any program with elevated privileges.

Published: 2024-02-16T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2024-08-28T15:31:10.756Z