CVE-2024-12686

Command Injection vulnerability in Remote Support(RS) & Privilege Remote Access (PRA)

HIGH
7.2
CVSS Score
Published: December 18, 2024 at 08:23 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:00 AM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorPrivileged Remote AccessRemote Support

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Severity
HIGH7.2
Exploitation
CISA KEV
Exploit prediction
EPSS 32%
SSVC
Active

Actively Exploited

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog

EPSS Score32.2%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) estimates a 32.2% chance this CVE is exploited in the wild within the next 30 days — higher than 98% of all CVEs. It complements CVSS: a high EPSS on a mid-severity CVE can still be urgent.

BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) contain an OS command injection vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker with existing administrative privileges to upload a malicious file. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to execute underlying operating system commands within the context of the site user.

Required Action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Ransomware Use
Unknown
Added to KEV
Jan 13, 2025
Remediation Due
Feb 3, 2025
630 days overdue

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) which can allow an attacker with existing administrative privileges to inject commands and run as a site user.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (3)

Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
Source: 13061848-ea10-403d-bd75-c83a022c2891
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12686
Vendor Advisory
Source: 13061848-ea10-403d-bd75-c83a022c2891
https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt24-11
US Government Resource
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-12686

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCActiveNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-78

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