BeyondTrust security advisory addresses a vulnerability in the Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access systems


BeyondTrust has released a security advisory that addresses 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-2024-12356 has a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 and if exploited could allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject commands into the site in the context of a site user.

Affected organisations are encouraged to review the BeyondTrust Security Advisory BT24-10 and apply the relevant updates.

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Source: NHS Digital


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