🛡️ CVE-2025-2297 — privilege-management-for-windows

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-268 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level 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-2025-2297 is recorded against 1 package.

  • privilege-management-for-windows (fixed in 25.4.270)

Timeline and source

Published on 28 July 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.beyondtrust.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-268
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-28
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
privilege-management-for-windows — 25.4.270

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