BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) Command Injection Vulnerability
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.
A remote attacker, without authentication, can achieve full data confidentiality loss, arbitrary modification of data, complete denial of service or system unavailability. Federal agencies are required to remediate by 2024-12-27 under CISA BOD 22-01.
This is a Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS). 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. Exploitation requires remote network access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and no user interaction required.
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Server compromised
Probably yes if any of these apply:
Active exploitation documented in the wild. Threat-research write-up: https://attackerkb.com/topics/G5s8ZWAbYH/cve-2024-12356/rapid7-analysis
Manual remediation steps
Apply the Vendor Patch
This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — apply the vendor's security update as soon as possible.
CISA required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
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