Threats / BeyondTrust / CVE-2024-12686
CVE-2024-12686
· EUVD no mirror located
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Verified 2026-08-04
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Support (RS) vulnerability
BeyondTrust PRA and RS contain an OS command injection vulnerability allowing authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary system commands via malicious file upload.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
An attacker with administrative access can upload a crafted file to inject and execute operating system commands within the site user context, potentially compromising system integrity and data confidentiality.
CISA KEV Yes · 2025-01-135EPSS 0.13788 (verify live)6CVSS 6.63CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Impact: total4
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
5 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-01-13).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.13788 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 6.6 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: BeyondTrust, Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS). Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 3.1, set at disclosure.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-78 OS Command Injection — weakness family: Injection.CWE — CNA-assigned (CVE.org); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 26 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I authenticate to the administrative interface using valid credentials or by compromising an admin account.
Business
Insider threats or credential compromise create pathways for unauthorized administrative access to critical remote access infrastructure.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I craft a malicious file containing OS command injection payloads and upload it through the administrative file upload functionality.
Business
The upload mechanism lacks sufficient input validation, allowing arbitrary code to reach the execution layer.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I trigger processing of the uploaded file, causing the injected commands to execute with site user privileges on the underlying operating system.
Business
Arbitrary command execution enables lateral movement, data exfiltration, and persistence within the remote access infrastructure.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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