CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-6250

Improper Protection of Alternate Path

Published: Jul 28, 2025 | Modified: Aug 04, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Prior to 25.4.270.0, when wmic.exe is elevated with a full admin token the user can stop the Defendpoint service, bypassing anti-tamper protections. Once the service is disabled, the malicious user can add themselves to Administrators group and run any process with elevated permissions.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently protect all possible paths that a user can take to access restricted functionality or resources.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Privilege_management_for_windows Beyondtrust * 25.4.270 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References