PT-2025-8230 · Unknown · Privilege Management For Windows

Published 2025-02-26 · Updated 2025-07-31 · CVE-2025-0889

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Privilege Management for Windows versions prior to 25.2

Description A local authenticated attacker can elevate privileges on a system via the manipulation of COM objects under certain circumstances where an EPM policy allows for automatic privilege elevation of a user process.

Recommendations For versions prior to 25.2, update to version 25.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the automatic privilege elevation of user processes in EPM policies to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

LPE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-268

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-0889

Affected Products

Privilege Management For Windows

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0889 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-0889 · Vendor Advisory
• https://beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt25-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/cybercronai/status/1894919246209065164 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/the_yellow_fall/status/1895627621930840376 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cveNotify/130433 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/latest_high_impact_cve/1876 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/syedaquib77/status/1895778276934922529 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1898276767665996167 · Twitter Post