CISA Adds Second BeyondTrust Flaw to KEV Catalog Amid Active Attacks
Jan 14, 2025
Vulnerability / Cybersecurity
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a second security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-12686 (CVSS score: 6.6), a medium-severity bug that could allow an attacker with existing administrative privileges to inject commands and run as a site user. "BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) contain an OS command injection vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker with existing administrative privileges to upload a malicious file," CISA said. "Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to execute underlying operating system commands within the context of the site user." The addition of CVE-2024-12686 to the KEV catalog comes nearly a month after it a...
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