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

> A local authenticated attacker can manipulate user profile files to inject challenge response codes, elevating privileges to administrator.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Jul 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Jul 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-96m4-p356-68w4

## 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 (Privilege Chaining)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2297?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12613/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2020-12614](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12614/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2020-12612](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12612/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2020-12615](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12615/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2020-28369](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28369/): Path traversal in n/a (high 7.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-2297 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2297/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2297/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2297
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2297
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-2297

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2297/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.