CVE-2025-2297

Privilege Management for Windows - Elevation of Privilege

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Jul 28, 2025
Updated: Jul 28, 2025
Reserved: Mar 13, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.2 High	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	BT

Weaknesses

CWE-268

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Privilege Management for WindowsBeyondTrust	before <25.4.270Affected

References

https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt25-05

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