CVE-2024-12356
Published 2024-12-17 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source 13061848-ea10-403d-bd75-c83a022c2891
Summary
CVE-2024-12356 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) . CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on December 19, 2024, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by December 27, 2024. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. BeyondTrust has 4 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 1 of them linked to ransomware.
All 4 known-exploited BeyondTrust vulnerabilities →Description
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products which can allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject commands that are run as a site user.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: BeyondTrust — Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS)
Name: BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) Command Injection Vulnerability
Date added: 2024-12-19 · Due: 2024-12-27
Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12356
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt24-10
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12356
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/G5s8ZWAbYH/cve-2024-12356/rapid7-analysis
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-12356

