Atlassian Confluence Hit by New Actively Exploited Zero-Day – Patch Now

Atlassian has released fixes to contain an actively exploited critical zero-day flaw impacting publicly accessible Confluence Data Center and Server instances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22515, is remotely exploitable and allows external attackers to create unauthorized Confluence...

Progress Software WS_FTP Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Progress Software WSFTP Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module exploits an unsafe .NET deserialization...

Proactively Prevent Breaches with Expanded Endpoint Protection in Rapid7 MDR

Working with thousands of security and risk professionals across the globe, we know that complexity is the top challenge SOCs are facing today. As the attack surface rapidly expands, security teams need more effective ways to keep pace with digital transformation and get out of the cycle of...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

TeamCity authentication bypass and remote code execution This week’s Metasploit release includes a new module for a critical authentication bypass in JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD Server. All versions of TeamCity prior to version 2023.05.4 are vulnerable to this issue. The vulnerability was originally...

JetBrains TeamCity Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'JetBrains TeamCity Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module exploits an authentication bypass vulnerability to...

CVE-2023-42793: Critical Authentication Bypass in JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD Servers

On September 20, 2023, JetBrains disclosed CVE-2023-42793, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in on-premises instances of their TeamCity CI/CD server. Successful exploitation of CVE-2023-42793 allows an unauthenticated attacker with HTTPS access to a TeamCity server to perform a remot...

Rapid7 Delivers Visibility Across All 19 Steps of Attack in 2023 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise

Over seven years ago, we set out to change the way that SOCs approach threat detection and response. With the introduction of InsightIDR, we wanted to address the false positives and snowballing complexity that was burning out analysts, deteriorating security posture, and inhibiting necessary...

LG Simple Editor Remote Code Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits broken access control and directory traversal vulnerabilities in LG Simple Editor software for gaining code execution. The vulnerabilities exist in versions of LG Simple Editor prior to v3.21. By exploiting this flaw, an attacker can upload and execute a malicious...

Exploit for Incorrect Authorization in Cacti

CVE-2022-46169 PoC - Unauthenticated RCE in Cacti 1.2.22 This...

CVE-2023-20269

A vulnerability in the remote access VPN feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct a brute force attack in an attempt to identify valid username and password combinations or ...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Pumpkin Spice Modules Here in the northern hemisphere, fall is on the way: leaves changing, the air growing crisp and cool, and some hackers changing the flavor of their caffeine. This release features a new exploit module targeting Apache NiFi as well as a new and improved library to interact wi...

Fake Update Utilizes New IDAT Loader To Execute StealC and Lumma Infostealers

Technical Analysis by: Thomas Elkins, Natalie Zargarov Contributions: Evan McCann, Tyler McGraw Recently, Rapid7 observed the Fake Browser Update lure tricking users into executing malicious binaries. While analyzing the dropped binaries, Rapid7 determined a new loader is utilized in order to...

PenTales: What It’s Like on the Red Team

At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re sharing some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully highlight som...

August 2023: GitHub PoCs, Vulristics, Qualys First-Party, Tenable ExposureAI, SC Awards and Rapid7, Anglo-Saxon list, MS Patch Tuesday, WinRAR, Juniper

August 2023: GitHub PoCs, Vulristics, Qualys First-Party, Tenable ExposureAI, SC Awards and Rapid7, Anglo-Saxon list, MS Patch Tuesday, WinRAR, Juniper. Hello everyone! This month I decided NOT to make an episode completely dedicated to Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Instead, this episode will be an...

Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs

Tyler Starks, Christiaan Beek, Robert Knapp, Zach Dayton, and Caitlin Condon contributed to this blog. Rapid7’s managed detection and response MDR teams have observed increased threat activity targeting Cisco ASA SSL VPN appliances physical and virtual dating back to at least March 2023. In some...

Rapid7 Takes 2023 SC Awards for Vulnerability Management and Threat Detection

The highly respected SC Awards program, hosted by SC Media, recognizes the solutions, organizations, and people driving innovation and success in information security. Now in its 26th year, the SC Awards continue to grow and evolve. Rapid7 is proud to announce we have received not one, but two...

Join us for VeloCON 2023: Digging Deeper Together!

September 13, 2023 at 9 am ET Rapid7 is thrilled to announce that the 2nd annual VeloCON: Digging Deeper Together virtual summit will be held this September 13th at 9 am ET. Once again, the conference will be online and completely free! VeloCON is a one-day event focused on the Velociraptor...

Rapid7’s Mid-Year Threat Review

It will come as little surprise to most people that cyber threats in 2023 have been rather prolific. From widely exploited vulnerabilities to high-profile ransomware and extortion campaigns, the first half of the year has seen more than its fair share of large-scale incidents. Rapid7’s 2023...

Maltrail 0.53 Unauthenticated Command Injection

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Maltrail Unauthenticated Command Injection', 'Description' = %q Maltrail is a malicious traffic detection system, utilizing publicly available...

A Message from Rapid7 CEO, Corey Thomas

Earlier today, the following email was shared with Rapid7 employees. Team, As we accelerate our delivery of the leading security operations solution and service platform experience to customers, we have determined it is necessary to restructure our operations, including the difficult decision to...