BeyondTrust Releases Security Advisory for Remote Support & Privileged Remote Access
A critical vulnerability in BeyondTrust remote access tools could lead to code injection
Summary
A critical vulnerability in BeyondTrust remote access tools could lead to code injection
Affected platforms
The following platforms are known to be affected:
Threat details
Introduction
BeyondTrust has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in the Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access systems. Remote Support allows authorised individuals such as IT Helpdesk staff to connect to remote systems. Privileged Remote Access facilitates just-in-time secure access to enterprise environments.
CVE-2025-5309 is an 'improper control of generation of code' vulnerability with a CVSSv4 base score of 8.6. Successful exploitation could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the server.
Remediation advice
Affected organisations are encouraged to review the BeyondTrust Security Advisory BT25-04, and apply the relevant updates.
Definitive source of threat updates
Last edited: 19 June 2025 2:51 pm