A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-48558) in SimpleHelp, a popular remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to create a new “Technician” account and use it to remote into managed endpoints, execute scripts, and more. Maliciously “forged” Technician account (Source: Horizon3.ai) The vulnerability CVE-2026-48558 is an authentication bypass flaw affecting SimpleHelp deployments configured to use OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. “Even when the SimpleHelp server is configured to enforce MFA for technicians, … More
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