Helpsystems Documented Security Vulnerabilities [exclusive] Jun 2026

To address these documented vulnerabilities, organizations are advised to:

: Checks compliance of user accounts, directories, and configuration settings against private or group policies to document security implementation. helpsystems documented security vulnerabilities

Research by Rapid7 and others has documented issues like CVE-2023-2989 (authentication bypass) and CVE-2023-2990 (denial of service). Instead, it is "vulnerable" to theft and weaponization

: Classification of findings into Critical, High, Medium, Low, and Trivial severities. Vulnerability Management & Reporting Tools

A discussion of documented "vulnerabilities" in the HelpSystems ecosystem would be incomplete without addressing Cobalt Strike. While technically a security testing tool, its acquisition by HelpSystems represents a unique security risk. Cobalt Strike is designed to emulate threat actor behavior; consequently, the software itself is not "vulnerable" in the traditional sense of having a bug that crashes a system. Instead, it is "vulnerable" to theft and weaponization.

HelpSystems (Fortra) provides several tools to identify and document these vulnerabilities:

: As of late 2025, approximately 9% of scanned systems still operate at level 30, and 3% remain at level 20, leaving them exposed to known exploits that level 40+ configurations mitigate. 2. Vulnerability Management & Reporting Tools