CVE-2025-2297 Privilege Management for Windows - Elevation of Privilege

What is CVE-2025-2297?

CVE-2025-2297 is a high-severity vulnerability in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows, published on 28 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Prior to version 25.4.270.0, a local authenticated attacker can manipulate user profile files to add illegitimate challenge response codes into the local user registry under certain conditions. This allows users with the ability to edit their user profile files to elevate their privileges to administrator.

Weakness: CWE-268

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2297?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Beyondtrust Privilege Management for Windows.

How do I fix CVE-2025-2297?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-2297 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-2297 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2297 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows

• CVE-2020-12613 Privilege escalation in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2020-12614 Privilege escalation in n/a High 8.4
• CVE-2020-12612 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2020-12615 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2020-28369 Path traversal in n/a High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-96m4-p356-68w4.