NEWS BRIEF
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging federal agencies to patch a command injection flaw tracked as CVE-2024-12686, otherwise known as BT24-11, and has added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog.
The medium-severity security bug was found as a part of BeyondTrust’s Remote Support SaaS Service security investigation, which was launched after a major data breach at the US Treasury Department. Silk Typhoon, a Chinese hacking group, was reportedly responsible for the December 2024 cyberattack, in which threat actors were able to gain credentials to Treasury workstations through the third-party vendor and then steal data. On Dec. 18, BeyondTrust reported identifying BT24-11 within its self-hosted and cloud Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access products, after reporting BT24-10 just two days prior.
On Jan. 6, in its latest update, BeyondTrust reported that its forensic investigation is nearly complete and that all software-as-a-service instances of BeyondTrust Remote Support have been fully patched with no new identified victims.
“All cloud instances have been patched for this vulnerability,” BeyondTrust stated in the update. “We have also released a patch for self-hosted versions.”
CISA stated that the vulnerability “can be exploited by an attacker with existing administrative privileges to inject commands and run as a site user.” That would allow a remote attacker to execute underlying operating system commands.
