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CVE-2025-6250: beyondtrust privilege_management_for_windows Improper Protection of Alternate Path

CVSS: 7.1v4.0HighAnalyzed
Published 28-07-2025Last modified 28-07-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-6250 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Improper Protection of Alternate Path vulnerability in beyondtrust privilege_management_for_windows. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.1/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.17%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 28-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 28-07-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.17%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

6%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.16% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.17%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Beyondtrust1 product

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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