Unauthenticated Command Injection in PRA/RS Remote Access
CVE-2024-12356 Published on December 17, 2024

Command Injection Vulnerability in Remote Support(RS) & Privileged Remote Access (PRA)
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.

NVD

Under Active Exploitation

This vulnerability is under active exploitation. In addition, this vulnerability has been known to be reliably automated.

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) Command Injection Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. 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. .

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by December 27, 2024: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2024-12356 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors in an automatable fashion. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.

Exploitation:
ACTIVE
Automatable:
YES
Technical Impact:
TOTAL
Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is a Command Injection Vulnerability?

The software constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component.

CVE-2024-12356 has been classified to as a Command Injection vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2024-12356

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Beyondtrust Remote Support
Beyondtrust Privileged Remote Access

Affected Versions

BeyondTrust Remote Support: BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
87.43%
Percentile
99.76%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.