CVE-2020-12614 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows through 5.6. If the publisher criteria is selected, it defines the name of a publisher that must be present in the certificate (and also requires that the certificate is valid). If an Add Admin token is protected by this criteria, it can be leveraged by a malicious actor to achieve Elevation of Privileges from standard user to administrator.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0014.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:beyondtrust:privilege_management_for_windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Beyondtrust Subscribe	Privilege Management For Windows Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://www.beyondtrust.com/support/changelog/privilege-management-for-windows-5-6-sr1
https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt22-10

History

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-12-12T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T12:04:21.620Z

Reserved: 2020-05-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-12614

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T12:04:21.620Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-12T15:15:07.363

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:59:55.383

Link: CVE-2020-12614

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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