CVE-2024-12356Command Injection Vulnerability in Remote Support(RS) & Privileged Remote Access (PRA)
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 87.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 19 Dec 2024
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) Command Injection Vulnerability.
- Added
- 19 Dec 2024
- Fix due (US federal)
- 27 Dec 2024
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 19 Dec 2024.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits1
Metasploit modules1 module
- BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/beyondtrust_pra_rs_unauth_rceRank excellentdisclosed 16 Dec 2024
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By BT
- 9 days later
· 9 days later
Published
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| BTCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 87.4% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
- affected ≤ 24.3.1
BeyondTrust · Privileged Remote Access
- affected ≤ 24.3.1
References
References5
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12356 (opens in a new tab)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12356 (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt24-10 (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-12356 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/G5s8ZWAbYH/cve-2024-12356/rapid7-analysis (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-50801 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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