CVE-2026-89325

The Rapid7 Insight Agent on Windows is vulnerable to local privilege escalation due to an uncontrolled search path element in InsightVM assessment content. Assessment content at or below version 0.0.261.0 invoked the code command without a fully qualified path from a process running as SYSTEM . A...

CVE-2026-89325 Rapid7 Insight Agent: Uncontrolled search path element in InsightVM assessment content leads to local privilege escalation

An uncontrolled search path element in InsightVM assessment content in Rapid7 Insight Agent on Windows allows a local, low-privileged user to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM via a planted executable resolved from the machine PATH. Assessment content at or below version 0.0.261.0 included a check...

CVE-2026-89325 Rapid7 Insight Agent: Uncontrolled search path element in InsightVM assessment content leads to local privilege escalation

An uncontrolled search path element in InsightVM assessment content in Rapid7 Insight Agent on Windows allows a local, low-privileged user to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM via a planted executable resolved from the machine PATH. Assessment content at or below version 0.0.261.0 included a check...

EUVD-2026-86404

An uncontrolled search path element in InsightVM assessment content in Rapid7 Insight Agent on Windows allows a local, low-privileged user to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM via a planted executable resolved from the machine PATH. Assessment content at or below version 0.0.261.0 included a check...

PT-2026-98257

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Rapid7 Insight Agent affected versions not specified Description An uncontrolled search path element in InsightVM assessment content on Windows allows a local, low-privileged user to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM. This occurs because a chec...

CVE-2026-89325: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

An uncontrolled search path element in InsightVM assessment content in Rapid7 Insight Agent on Windows allows a local, low-privileged user to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM via a planted executable resolved from the machine PATH. Assessment content at or below version 0.0.261.0 included a check...

Rapid7 Analysis: Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution (CVE-2026-63520)

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New Report: AI threats are here. Why Q2 2026 signals the end of traditional patch cycles

You can’t patch everything. So what do you fix first? Findings in Q2 2026 have changed traditional answers. The latest Quarterly Threat Landscape Report from Rapid7 Labs shows vulnerability disclosures still surging while attackers use automation and AI-assisted tooling to compress the time betwe...

Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release

Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept PoC code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 CVSS score: 9.1, which refers to a critical security feature bypass that stems from weak authentication. I...

CVE-2026-14172 Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and Insight Agent Local Privilege Escalation via Unvalidated Executable Invocation

Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and the Insight Agent execute discovered executables during authenticated assessment without validating file ownership, allowing a local low-privileged user to run code as the scan credential Scan Engine or as root/SYSTEM Insight Agent. Fixed in Scan Engine content...

CVE-2026-14172

CVE-2026-14172 affects Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and the Insight Agent. The issue allows a local, low-privilege user to execute discovered executables during authenticated assessments due to lack of file ownership validation, enabling code execution as the scan credential (Scan Engine) or as roo...

CVE-2026-14172 Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and Insight Agent Local Privilege Escalation via Unvalidated Executable Invocation

Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and the Insight Agent execute discovered executables during authenticated assessment without validating file ownership, allowing a local low-privileged user to run code as the scan credential Scan Engine or as root/SYSTEM Insight Agent. Fixed in Scan Engine content...

EUVD-2026-48487

Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and the Insight Agent execute discovered executables during authenticated assessment without validating file ownership, allowing a local low-privileged user to run code as the scan credential Scan Engine or as root/SYSTEM Insight Agent. Fixed in Scan Engine content...

CVE-2026-14172: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and the Insight Agent execute discovered executables during authenticated assessment without validating file ownership, allowing a local low-privileged user to run code as the scan credential Scan Engine or as root/SYSTEM Insight Agent. Fixed in Scan Engine content...

Top Five Compliance Audit Software and Tools: Mastering Modern Regulatory Risk

Executive Summary Manual audit preparation no longer scales across hybrid, cloud, endpoint, and application environments. Compliance monitoring software must move from checklist validation to continuous control monitoring. The strongest platforms connect evidence collection with risk...

Sunsetting the Public AttackerKB Platform

What’s changing, where AttackerKB-style analysis will live, and how users can continue finding Rapid7 vulnerability intelligence. On August 18, Rapid7 will sunset the standalone public AttackerKB website as part of a broader effort to unify our vulnerability intelligence, exploit analysis, and...

CVE-2026-8661 Server-Side Cross-Site Scripting and SSRF in Rapid7 InsightConnect Markdown to PDF Plugin

Server-Side Request Forgery in the markdowntopdf action of Rapid7 InsightConnect Markdown Plugin on Linux in versions prior to 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to make arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via unsanitized resource-loading HTML elements img/src, CSS url, @import embedded in Markdown input...

CVE-2026-8661

Server-Side Request Forgery in the markdowntopdf action of Rapid7 InsightConnect Markdown Plugin on Linux in versions prior to 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to make arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via unsanitized resource-loading HTML elements img/src, CSS url, @import embedded in Markdown input...

CVE-2026-8661

CVE-2026-8661 affects the Rapid7 InsightConnect Markdown Plugin (Linux) up to version 3.1.4. The vulnerability is in the markdown_to_pdf action and combines Server-Side Scripting (XSS) with Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). It allows remote attackers to execute JavaScript server-side and to tri...

EUVD-2026-39616

Server-Side Cross-Site Scripting and Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability in the markdowntopdf action of Rapid7 InsightConnect Markdown Plugin version 3.1.4 and earlier on Linux allows remote attackers to execute JavaScript server-side and make arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via crafted...