# CVE-2025-6250: Privilege Management for Windows - Elevation of Privilege

> Attackers can stop the Defendpoint service via wmic.exe to bypass anti-tamper protections and escalate privileges to Administrator.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **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-vxhp-fm7f-3jrp

## What is CVE-2025-6250?

CVE-2025-6250 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 25.4.270.0, when wmic.exe is elevated with a full admin token the user can stop the Defendpoint service, bypassing anti-tamper protections. Once the service is disabled, the malicious user can add themselves to Administrators group and run any process with elevated permissions.

Weakness: CWE-424 (Improper Protection of Alternate Path)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-6250?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Beyondtrust Privilege Management for Windows.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-6250?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-6250 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-6250 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-6250 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-2025-6250 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-6250 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-2025-6250 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-2025-6250/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6250/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6250
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6250
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-6250

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-6250/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.