The Risky Business: Rapid7 Report Highlights Need for Improved Vulnerability Management Practices

Back in July, Rapid7 released its first-ever National / Industry / Cloud Exposure Report, otherwise known as “NICER.” This report had a big job: to assess not only the prevalence of known threats, but also to provide a geographic census of those threats. It tells the all-too-true story of...

SolarWinds SUNBURST Backdoor Supply Chain Attack: What You Need to Know

On Dec. 12, 2020, FireEye provided detailed information on a widespread attack campaign involving a backdoored component of the SolarWinds Orion platform, which is used by organizations to monitor and manage IT infrastructure. FireEye has given the campaign an identifier of UNC2452 and is further...

2020 Under the Hoodie Report Reveals Pen Testers’ Most-Loved Vulnerabilities

Penetration testing “pentesting” is the practice of simulating a criminal breach of a sensitive area in order to uncover and fix defensive failures. Rapid7’s recently released report, Under the Hoodie, draws from the experiences of our Rapid7 pen testing services teamers to highlight key...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer Among Security Analytics Providers by Leading Industry Report

At Rapid7, we recognize that security professionals are facing a more challenging landscape than ever before. The mission of InsightIDR—our natively cloud SIEM—is to remove the drudgery and operational burdens associated with traditional approaches, and drive efficient, effective detection and...

Kong Gateway Admin API Remote Code Execution

frozenstringliteral: true This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Kong Gateway Admin API Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = ' This module uses the Kong admin API to create a route...

CVE-2020-7378: OpenCRX Unverified Password Change (FIXED)

OpenCRX version 4.30 and version 5.0-20200717 suffers from an unverified password change vulnerability, which is an instance of CWE-620. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 9.1, which is usually CRITICAL, since it effectively allows anyone who can connect to the OpenCRX server to change the...

The vulnerability of the Rapid7 Nexpose vulnerability management system lies in the insufficient protection of the SQL query structure, allowing attackers to enhance their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Rapid7 Nexpose vulnerability management system is related to insufficient protection of the SQL query structure. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to enhance their privileges remotely...

Behind the Scenes: Under the Hoodie 2020 Video Series

Longtime fans of our Under the Hoodie video series may have noticed that this year’s videos looked, well, a little different. Because we were all working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we realized that it was no longer feasible to sit down in person and interview our pen testing services...

Rapid7 Metasploit Framework msfvenom APK Template Command Injection

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'rex/zip/jar' class MetasploitModule 'Rapid7 Metasploit Framework msfvenom APK Template Command Injection', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a command...

Advance Your Career: Life as a Rapid7 Belfast Software Engineer

At Rapid7, we believe that by hiring a diverse team with different levels of experience and varying backgrounds, we can ChallengeConvention as OneMoose, push the boundaries of our thinking, and pursue our goals of continuous innovation to achieve secure advancement for all. As we continue to buil...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of Citrix ADC/NetScaler

Welcome to the NICER Protocol Deep Dive blog series! When we started researching what all was out on the internet way back in January, we had no idea we'd end up with a hefty, 137-page tome of a research report. The sheer length of such a thing might put off folks who might otherwise learn a thin...

The Story Behind Security Breaches

There are many potential causes of security breaches, including malicious attacks, system glitches, equipment failures, software bugs, and zero days. What is a common root cause here? Human error. According to Micke Ahola, “In a security context, human error means unintentional actions—or lack of...

CVE-2020-7384

Rapid7's Metasploit msfvenom framework handles APK files in a way that allows for a malicious user to craft and publish a file that would execute arbitrary commands on a victim's machine...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rapid7's Metasploit msfvenom framework handles APK files in a way that allows for a malicious user to craft and publish a file that would execute arbitrary commands on a victim's machine...

CVE-2020-7384

Summary of CVE-2020-7384 (Metasploit msfvenom APK Template Command Injection) : The vulnerability affects Rapid7’s Metasploit Framework, specifically the msfvenom APK template feature. The issue arises from unsanitized input in template handling (Owner field) that flows into a process invocation ...

CVE-2020-7384 Client-Side Command Injection in Rapid7 Metasploit

Rapid7's Metasploit msfvenom framework handles APK files in a way that allows for a malicious user to craft and publish a file that would execute arbitrary commands on a victim's machine...

Rapid7 Metasploit Framework msfvenom APK Template Command Injection

This module exploits a command injection vulnerability in Metasploit Framework's msfvenom payload generator when using a crafted APK file as an Android payload template. Affects Metasploit Framework -x Module Options msf use exploit/unix/fileformat/metasploit/msfvenomapktemplatecmdinjection msf...

Rapid7 Announces Improvements to Goals and SLAs in InsightVM

We know that proving the efficacy of your vulnerability management program is no easy task. But with the Goals and SLAs feature in InsightVM, you can ensure you’re making and tracking progress toward your goals and service-level agreements SLAs at an appropriate place, as well as maintaining...

2021 Detection and Response Planning, Part 3: Why 2021 Is the Year for SOC Automation

In this third installment of our series around 2021 security planning, we’re focused on SOC automation. In part one, we spoke with Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor, Jeffrey Gardner on tips and advice for ramping up annual security planning. In part two, we discussed how reliable,...

What’s New in InsightAppSec and tCell: Q3 2020 in Review

Here at Rapid7, we’ve been quite busy continuously improving, expanding functionality, and testing new features for feedback with our customers across our application security portfolio. This includes InsightAppSec, our leading DAST solution, tCell by Rapid7, our next-gen cloud WAF and RASP...