Protecting against DoublePulsar infection with InsightVM and Nexpose

After WannaCry hit systems around the world last month, security experts warned that the underlying vulnerabilities that allowed the ransomworm to spread are still unpatched in many environments, rendering those systems vulnerable to other hacking tools from the same toolset. Rapid7s Project...

Announcing Microsoft Azure Asset Discovery in InsightVM

Almost every security or IT practitioner is familiar with the ascent and continued dominance of Amazon Web Services AWS. But you only need to peel back a layer or two to find Microsoft Azure growing its own market share and establishing its position as the most-used, most-likely-to-renew public...

Wanna see WannaCry vulns in Splunk?

Do you want to see your WannaCry vulns all in one dashboard in Splunk? We've got you covered. Before you start, make sure you have these two apps installed in your Splunk App: Rapid7 Nexpose Technology Add-On for Splunk Rapid7 Nexpose for Splunk Steps 1. Follow the directions in this blog post to...

Scanning and Remediating WannaCry/MS17-010 in InsightVM and Nexpose

Update 5/18/17: EternalBlue exploit used in WannaCry attack is now available in Metasploit for testing your compensating controls and validating remediations. More info: EternalBlue: Metasploit Module for MS17-010. Also removed steps 5 and 6 from scan instructions as they were not strictly...

Better Credential Management for Better Vulnerability Results

Often the first time the security team knows that credentials have expired is when their scans start to return dramatically fewer vulnerabilities. We all know getting credentialed access yields the best results for visibility. Yet, maintaining access can be difficult. Asset owners change...

CVE-2017-5243

The default SSH configuration in Rapid7 Nexpose hardware appliances shipped before June 2017 does not specify desired algorithms for key exchange and other important functions. As a result, it falls back to allowing ALL algorithms supported by the relevant version of OpenSSH and makes the...

Design/Logic Flaw

The default SSH configuration in Rapid7 Nexpose hardware appliances shipped before June 2017 does not specify desired algorithms for key exchange and other important functions. As a result, it falls back to allowing ALL algorithms supported by the relevant version of OpenSSH and makes the...

CVE-2017-5243

The default SSH configuration in Rapid7 Nexpose hardware appliances shipped before June 2017 does not specify desired algorithms for key exchange and other important functions. As a result, it falls back to allowing ALL algorithms supported by the relevant version of OpenSSH and makes the...

CVE-2017-5243

The default SSH configuration in Rapid7 Nexpose hardware appliances shipped before June 2017 does not specify desired algorithms for key exchange and other important functions. As a result, it falls back to allowing ALL algorithms supported by the relevant version of OpenSSH and makes the...

CVE-2017-5243

The CVE-2017-5243 issue affects Rapid7 Nexpose physical hardware appliances shipped before June 2017, where the default SSH configuration did not specify desired KEX, cipher, or MAC algorithms. This caused the SSH implementation to fall back to all algorithms supported by the OpenSSH version in u...

Rapid7 Nexpose Hardware Device Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability

Rapid7 Nexpose hardware appliances are hardware devices with Nexpose from Rapid7, Inc. Nexpose is a set of vulnerability management software that can synthesize the results of different scans to probe the network in depth. A man-in-the-middle vulnerability exists in the default SSH configuration ...

R7-2017-13 | CVE-2017-5243: Nexpose Hardware Appliance SSH Enabled Obsolete Algorithms

Summary Nexpose physical appliances shipped with an SSH configuration that allowed obsolete algorithms to be used for key exchange and other functions. Because these algorithms are enabled, attacks involving authentication to the hardware appliances are more likely to succeed. We strongly encoura...

SSH Configuration on Nexpose Servers Allowed Weak Encryption Algorithms

Rapid7 encouraged owners of its Nexpose appliances this week to apply an update to their systems to tweak how SSH is configured by default. The company warned on Wednesday the devices were shipped with an SSH configuration that could have let some obsolete KEX, encryption and MAC algorithms be us...

InsightVM/Nexpose Patch Tuesday Reporting

Many of our customers wish to report specifically on Microsoft patch related vulnerabilities. This often includes specific vulnerabilities that are patched in Patch Tuesday updates. This post will show you the various ways that you can create reports for each of these. Remediation Projects...

Samba CVE-2017-7494: Scanning and Remediating in InsightVM and Nexpose

Just when youd finished wiping away your WannaCry tears, the interwebs dropped another bombshell: a nasty Samba vulnerability, CVE-2017-7494 no snazzy name as of the publishing of this blog, but hopefully something with a Lion King reference will be created soon. As with WannaCry, we wanted to ke...

CVE-2017-5242: Nexpose/InsightVM Virtual Appliance Duplicate SSH Host Key

Today, Rapid7 is notifying Nexpose and InsightVM users of a vulnerability that affects certain virtual appliances. While this issue is relatively low severity, we want to make sure that our customers have all the information they need to make informed security decisions regarding their networks. ...

Scanning and Remediating WannaCry/MS17-010 in InsightVM and Nexpose

Today, security teams are starting their work week with a scramble to remediate MS17-010, in order to prevent the associated ransomware attack, WannaCry, also known as Wanna Decryptor, WNCRY, and Wanna Decryptor 2.0 how I miss the halcyon days when vulnerabilities had gentle names like Poodle. Wi...

Scanning and Remediating WannaCry/MS17-010 in InsightVM and Nexpose

Today, security teams are starting their work week with a scramble to remediate MS17-010, in order to prevent the associated ransomware attack, WannaCry, also known as Wanna Decryptor, WNCRY, and Wanna Decryptor 2.0 how I miss the halcyon days when vulnerabilities had gentle names like Poodle. Wi...

Exploitable Vulnerabilities: A Metasploit-Vulnerability Management Love Story

Integrating InsightVM or Nexpose Rapid7's vulnerability management solutions with Metasploit our penetration testing solution is a lot like Cupid playing "matchmaker" with vulnerabilities and exploit modules. When a vulnerability scan is imported into Metasploit, many things happen under the hood...

Patch Tuesday - April 2017

This month's updates deliver vital client-side fixes, resolving publicly disclosed remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. In particular, they've patched the CVE-2017-0199 zero-day flaw in Office and...