CVE-2026-20206 — The BrowserBot Component Of Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Ag Vulnerability

title: CVE-2026-20206 - Cisco ThousandEyes BrowserBot Command Injection
id: scw-2026-05-20-ai-1
status: experimental
level: critical
description: |
  Detects the execution of the BrowserBot component within Cisco ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent with command injection patterns, indicative of CVE-2026-20206. This rule specifically looks for 'node' processes associated with 'browserbot' and common JavaScript patterns used for command execution like 'eval' or 'child_process.exec'.
author: SCW Feed Engine (AI-generated)
date: 2026-05-20
references:
  - https://shimiscyberworld.com/posts/nvd-CVE-2026-20206/
tags:
  - attack.execution
  - attack.t1059
logsource:
    category: process_creation
detection:
  selection:
      Image|contains:
          - '/usr/bin/node'
      CommandLine|contains:
          - 'browserbot'
          - 'eval'
          - 'require("child_process").exec'
      condition: Image AND CommandLine
falsepositives:
  - Legitimate administrative activity

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