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CVE-2020-12612

Published: 2023-12-12T14:15Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T04:59Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
An issue was discovered in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows through 5.6. When specifying a program to elevate, it can typically be found within the Program Files (x86) folder and therefore uses the %ProgramFiles(x86)% environment variable. However, when this same policy gets pushed to a 32bit machine, this environment variable does not exist. Therefore, since the standard user can create a user level environment variable, they can repoint this variable to any folder the user has full control of. Then, the folder structure can be created in such a way that a rule matches and arbitrary code runs elevated. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt