CVE-2024-12686
RCE in Beyondtrust Privileged Remote Access ≤ 24.3.1
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2024-12686 is a medium-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Beyondtrust Privileged Remote Access. Its CVSS base score is 6.6 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique NTDS (T1003.003); ranked in the top 4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; CISA has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2024-12686 is a command injection vulnerability, tracked under CWE-78, that affects BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS). It carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 6.6 and permits an attacker to inject and execute operating system commands that run in the context of a site user.
An attacker must already possess administrative privileges on the affected system and can leverage the flaw over the network, albeit with high attack complexity, to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The requirement for existing high privileges limits the initial attack surface but enables full command execution once administrative access is obtained.
BeyondTrust has published advisory BT24-11, and the issue appears in CISA's known exploited vulnerabilities catalog, indicating that mitigation guidance and patches are available through those sources.
The EPSS score reached a peak of 0.3997 with a current value of 0.3153, and the presence in the CISA catalog confirms observed exploitation activity in the wild.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51049
Vulnerability Data
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.
- CWE(s)
- KEV Date Added
- 13 January 2025
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Mitigating Controls
Control response
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing or incorrect command sanitization during development.
Input validation directly neutralizes or rejects special characters that would otherwise alter OS command structure.
Least privilege reduces the permissions available to any process that could be subverted by injected commands.
Least functionality restricts available OS commands and interpreters, limiting the blast radius of injection.
Secure engineering principles require proper neutralization of untrusted input before command construction.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
PR.PS-06's SDLC practices directly require secure coding and input handling that blocks command-injection defects, yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors and verification gaps unaddressed.
Routine patching/maintenance can remediate known command-injection CVEs in dependencies (partial forward) but does nothing to stop developers from introducing improper neutralization in custom code (none reverse).
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.