BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and certain older versions of Privileged Remote Access (PRA) contain a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability. By sending specially crafted requests, an unauthenticated remote attacker may be able to execute operating system commands in the context of the site user.
CVE-2026-1731
Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-02-13), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8(high)
- EPSS
- 99.8%
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
Published
February 6, 2026
Last Modified
February 17, 2026
Advisory Details (4)
Auto-updated Jun 1, 2026Reconnaissance Has Begun for the New BeyondTrust RCE (CVE-2026-1731): Here's What We See So Far
https://www.greynoise.io/blog/reconnaissance-beyondtrust-rce-cve-2026-1731Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2026-1731GitHub - win3zz/CVE-2026-1731: CVE-2026-1731 - Critical command injection vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access due to unsafe Bash arithmetic evaluation in a WebSocket-reachable script · GitHub
https://github.com/win3zz/CVE-2026-1731CSM Login Okta - Customer Support
https://beyondtrustcorp.service-now.com/csm?id=csm_kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0023293Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 0× in last 7d / 0× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-16 05:10 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-15 16:49 UTCCISA KEV update
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- 2026-07-14 18:05 UTCCISA KEV update
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- 2026-07-14 13:31 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-13 17:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 17:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 17:07 UTCCISA KEV update
- 2026-07-13 13:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 13:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 09:49 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-13 06:12 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-10 18:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 18:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-10 17:52 UTCCISA KEV update
- 2026-07-10 14:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 14:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-10 10:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 10:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-07-09 22:32 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-09 19:10 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-09 18:35 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-09 14:38 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-07-08 18:49 UTCEG score recompute
Publicly available exploits
(3 references)Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 Metasploit module) (1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.
- GitHub PoCjakubie07/CVE-2026-1731First seen Feb 18, 2026
CVE-2026-1731 PoC
Open source ↗ - Metasploitexploit/linux/http/beyondtrust_pra_rs_command_injection✓ verifiedFirst seen Feb 6, 2026
BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Open source ↗ - Nucleijavascript/cves/2026/CVE-2026-1731.yamlFirst seen Jan 1, 2026
BeyondTrust Remote Support - Unauthenticated WebSocket RCE
Open source ↗
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