CVE-2025-2297
Prior to version 25.4.270.0, a local authenticated attacker can manipulate user profile files to add illegitimate challenge response codes into the local user registry under certain conditions. This allows users with the ability to edit their user profile files to elevate their privileges to administrator.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.2
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.13%
- CWE
- CWE-268
- Published
- 2025-07-28
- Last modified
- 2026-03-12
Affected products
- BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows
Weakness type
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