BeyondTrust has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in the Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access systems. Remote Support allows authorised individuals such as IT Helpdesk staff to connect to remote systems.
Privileged Remote Access facilitates just-in-time secure access to enterprise environments. CVE-2025-5309 is an ‘improper control of generation of code’ vulnerability with a CVSSv4 base score of 8.6. Successful exploitation could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the server.
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