Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-40145 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-40145 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-40145?
- Informational severity, published 17 August 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management <UNKNOWN>.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-40145?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-40145 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-40145?
- Check whether you run BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in how the Endpoint Privilege Management (Windows Deployment) support utility interacts with the agent's tamper protection controls. Under certain conditions, the protections applied to the utility process may not be enforced as intended, creating a gap in the security enforcement mechanism. This is a logic flaw in the protection application layer rather than a memory safety issue. An attacker with local access could potentially exploit this to bypass tamper protection, though specific preconditions and exploitation techniques are not detailed in the available advisory text. Patches from BeyondTrust are expected.
Affected products
- BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management <UNKNOWN>
Timeline
- 2026-08-17: disclosed