What is CVE-2024-12686?
A vulnerability has been discovered in Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) which can allow an attacker with existing administrative privileges to inject commands and run as a site user.
The record classifies CVE-2024-12686 under weakness class CWE-78. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs high-privilege credentials, 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 680 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 6.6 — MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 13.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.4% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Listed since 2025-01-13, federal remediation deadline 2025-02-03
- Threadlinqs priority
- 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
- Published
- 2024-12-18, last modified 2025-10-21
Is CVE-2024-12686 being exploited?
CISA added CVE-2024-12686 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-01-13, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2025-02-03 under BOD 22-01. Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2024-12686 is publicly available. 1 public proof-of-concept repository is tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 47 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
- trickest/cve (trickest)
Affected products and versions
- Beyondtrust: Privileged Remote Access, Remote Support
How to fix CVE-2024-12686
Vendor advisory: https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt24-11. Because CVE-2024-12686 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2025-02-03. 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-2024-12686
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2024-12686, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.