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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-2297

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 certai

Published Jul 28, 2025 · catalog updated Jul 28, 2025 · BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows

Check if you run it

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-2297. EPSS is 0.13%. Act only if a listed version of BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows is installed.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
High7.2
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.13%
Remediation
Version ranges on file
Affected products
vendor BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows 0 <<25.4.270

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.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows 0 <<25.4.2700 <<25.4.270

How to fix CVE-2025-2297

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2025-2297. EPSS is 0.13%. Act only if a listed version of BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows is installed.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows 0 <<25.4.270 0 <<25.4.270. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.13%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Technology hubs

Windows security

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Jul 28, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    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.

  2. Jul 28, 2025 · EUVD

    Updated

    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.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-2297

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2025-2297

    30-day exploitation probability 0.13%

    first.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-22929

    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 p

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 24, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.

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