CVE-2026-102764: Critical BeyondTrust Remote Support Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild
Overview On October 15, 2026, BeyondTrust disclosed a critical authentication bypass in Remote Support (RS) , its platform for remotely troubleshooting and administering endpoints. Tracked as CVE-2026-102764 and assigned a CVSSv4 score of 9.3 , the vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to perform file operations on an affected appliance without user interaction. Versions 26.2.3 and earlier are affected unless the BT26-05-RS patch has been applied. BeyondTrust has confirmed that exploitation in the wild has already occurred prior to disclosure. Its October 16 report dates the two known Remote Support compromises to August 29, 2026: one BeyondTrust-hosted instance and one self-hosted appliance. BeyondTrust discovered and contained the hosted compromise on September 28; Mandiant shared corroborating findings from the self-hosted investigation on September 30. On October 16, 2026, CVE-2026-102764 was added to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA
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