CVE-2024-57726 — Microsoft
CRITICALCVE-2024-57726 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.9) CWE-862 vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-04-24) and has been used in ransomware campaigns — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
SimpleHelp remote support software v5.5.7 and before has a vulnerability that allows low-privileges technicians to create API keys with excessive permissions. These API keys can be…
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-04-24 — including use in ransomware campaigns. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2026-05-08.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2024-57726.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2024-57726 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 396,257 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 50–90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
SimpleHelp remote support software v5.5.7 and before has a vulnerability that allows low-privileges technicians to create API keys with excessive permissions. These API keys can be used to escalate privileges to the server admin role.
Affected Products
simplehelpsimple-helpDetection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2024-57726 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used.
How to detect CVE-2024-57726
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2024-57726 -u https://target- Template
- SimpleHelp <= 5.5.7 - Privilege Escalation
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Attackers can escalate privileges to server admin, potentially gaining full control over the system.
- Remediation
- Update to the latest version of SimpleHelp that addresses this issue or apply the vendor's security patch.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (popy21), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
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