🛡️ CVE-2023-49944 — privilege-management-for-windows

🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
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Description

The Challenge Response feature of BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows (PMfW) before 2023-07-14 allows local administrators to bypass this feature by decrypting the shared key, or by locating the decrypted shared key in process memory. The threat is mitigated by the Agent Protection feature.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2023-49944 is recorded against 1 package.

  • privilege-management-for-windows (fixed in 2023-07-14)

Timeline and source

Published on 25 December 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.beyondtrust.com
www.beyondtrust.com
www.beyondtrust.com
www.beyondtrust.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-12-25
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
privilege-management-for-windows — 2023-07-14

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