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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-12-12T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T12:04:21.637Z

Reserved: 2020-05-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-12612

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-12-12T14:15:07.327

Modified: 2023-12-15T16:24:27.337

Link: CVE-2020-12612

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