CVE-2020-9326: BeyondTrust Privilege Management For Windows And Mac

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Windows and Mac (aka PMWM; formerly Avecto Defendpoint) 5.1 through 5.5 before 5.5 SR1 mishandles command-line arguments with PowerShell .ps1 file extensions present, leading to a DefendpointService.exe crash.

Affected products

• BeyondTrust Privilege Management For Windows And Mac: from 5.1, before 5.5 (fixed in 5.5); version 5.5 only

Published 2020-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.