
CVE-2024-12356: BeyondTrust RCE, US Treasury Breach
CVE-2024-12356 is a critical command injection vulnerability in BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) patched in December 2024. An unauthenticated attacker can inject operating system commands via a vulnerable API endpoint. The flaw was exploited by a Chinese state-sponsored actor to compromise a BeyondTrust SaaS instance and subsequently breach the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). CVSS 9.8.
