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HIGH CWE-400

CVE-2026-40140

High-Severity Pre-Authentication Vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access

BeyondTrust·Remote Support

8.7/ 10
CVSS 4.0
High severity
0.65%
EPSS exploit odds
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Higher than 52% of all CVEs
Not listed
CISA KEV catalog
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation on CISA's list.
Timeline
Published
Jul 6, 2026
Updated
Jul 7, 2026
First covered
Jul 7, 2026
Latest story
4 months ago

Summary

BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access contain a high-severity pre-authentication vulnerability in the network communication subsystem. Insufficient validation of client-supplied input may allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition affecting appliance availability.

CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Attack profile

Attack vectorNetwork
ComplexityLow
RequirementsNone
PrivilegesNone
User interactionNone
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityHigh
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected products

  • BeyondTrust Remote Supportup to 25.3.2
  • BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Accessup to 25.3.2

References

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