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...

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 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...