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CVE-2024-12356 — Beyondtrust Privileged Remote Access

CISA KEV
CVSS v3.1 9.8 (CRITICAL) · EPSS 93.7% (higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 9/10 · Published 2024-12-17

As of 2025-10-24, CVE-2024-12356 is a CRITICAL-severity vulnerability in Beyondtrust Privileged Remote Access, CVSS v3.1 9.8, EPSS 93.7% (99.8th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-12-19), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2024-12-27. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2024-12356, most recently “CVE-2026-1731 — BeyondTrust Pre-Auth RCE, CVSS 9.8, CISA KEV, Actively Exploited — Unauthenticated OS Command Injection in Remote Support & Privileged Remote Access, SimpleHelp RAT Post-Exploitation, Full Domain Control, Silk Typhoon Predecessor Chain”.

Last updated: 2025-10-24

What is CVE-2024-12356?

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.

The record classifies CVE-2024-12356 under weakness class CWE-77. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 2 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 635 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score
9.8 — CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (FIRST)
93.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV
Listed since 2024-12-19, federal remediation deadline 2024-12-27
Threadlinqs priority
9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
Published
2024-12-17, last modified 2025-10-24

Is CVE-2024-12356 being exploited?

CISA added CVE-2024-12356 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2024-12-19, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2024-12-27 under BOD 22-01. It currently carries a trending score of 40 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

How to fix CVE-2024-12356

Vendor advisory: https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt24-10. Because CVE-2024-12356 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2024-12-27. Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2024-12356

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2024-12356, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

Sources

Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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