BeyondTrust Privilege Management prior 2023-07-14 on Windows access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in BeyondTrust Privilege Management on Windows. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Privilege Management. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-49944. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in BeyondTrust Privilege Management on Windows. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Privilege Management. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Challenge Response feature of BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows (PMfW) before 2023-07-14 allows local administrators to bypass this feature by decrypting the shared key, or by locating the decrypted shared key in process memory. The threat is mitigated by the Agent Protection feature.

The weakness was released 12/25/2023. The advisory is shared for download at beyondtrust.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-49944 since 12/03/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 2023-07-14 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Privilege Management 2023-07-14

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07/14/2023 🔍
12/03/2023 +142 days 🔍
12/25/2023 +22 days 🔍
12/25/2023 +0 days 🔍
01/19/2024 +25 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: beyondtrust.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-49944 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-49944
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-248996

Entryinfo

Created: 12/25/2023 10:31
Updated: 01/19/2024 08:45
Changes: 12/25/2023 10:31 (41), 01/19/2024 08:45 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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