{"id":"CVE-2023-49944","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2023-49944","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:13:15.492Z","title":"The Challenge Response feature of BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows (PMfW) before 2023-07-14 allows local administrators to bypass this feature by decrypting the shared key, or by locating the decrypted shared key in process memory.","description":"The Challenge Response feature of BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows (PMfW) before 2023-07-14 allows local administrators to bypass this feature by decrypting the shared key, or by locating the decrypted shared key in process memory. The threat is mitigated by the Agent Protection feature.","published":"2023-12-25T08:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T06:36:45.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.7,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["beyondtrust/privilege management for windows"],"epss":{"score":0.00183,"percentile":0.07842,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.beyondtrust.com/security","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt23-08","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.beyondtrust.com/security","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.beyondtrust.com/trust-center/security-advisories/bt23-08","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49944","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}