CVE-2022-4261: Rapid7 Nexpose Update Validation Issue (FIXED)

On November 14, 2022, Rapid7's product engineering team discovered that the mechanism in Nexpose and InsightVM used to validate the source of an update file was unreliable. This failure, which involved the internal cryptographic validation of received updates, was designated as CVE-2022-4261, and...

CVE-2022-4261 Rapid7 Nexpose Update Validation Issue

Rapid7 Nexpose and InsightVM versions prior to 6.6.172 failed to reliably validate the authenticity of update contents. This failure could allow an attacker to provide a malicious update and alter the functionality of Rapid7 Nexpose. The attacker would need some pre-existing mechanism to provide ...

CVE-2022-4261 Rapid7 Nexpose Update Validation Issue

Rapid7 Nexpose and InsightVM versions prior to 6.6.172 failed to reliably validate the authenticity of update contents. This failure could allow an attacker to provide a malicious update and alter the functionality of Rapid7 Nexpose. The attacker would need some pre-existing mechanism to provide ...

CVE-2022-4261

Rapid7 Nexpose and InsightVM before 6.6.178 are affected by a certificate validation issue in the update process. The vulnerability arises from failing to validate the update server’s certificate when downloading updates, potentially enabling an attacker with network access (including through a c...

ISO 27001 Certification: What it is and why it matters

Did you know that Rapid7 information security management system ISMS is ISO 27001 certified? This certification validates that our security strategy and processes meet very high standards. It underscores our commitment to corporate and customer data security. What is ISO 27001? ISO 27001 is an...

Rapid7 Integration For AWS Verified Access

Today at re:invent, Amazon Web Services AWS unveiled its new AWS Verified Access service, and we are thrilled to announce that InsightIDR — Rapid7’s next-gen SIEM and XDR — will support log ingestion from this new service when it is made generally available. What Is AWS Verified Access? AWS...

F5 BIG-IP iControl Remote Command Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'F5 BIG-IP iControl Authenticated RCE via RPM Creator', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a newline injection into an RPM .rpmspec file that...

Search Made Easy: InsightIDR’s Secret Weapon for Efficiency and Efficacy

By Matt Heidet Matt is a Senior Information Security Engineer at a Regional Financial Institution. He is a Customer and Guest Blogger for Rapid7 Have you ever groaned when divvying up incidents from a pen-test amongst an overworked team? Or maybe you’ve struggled to present how you adhere to...

Rapid7 and HashiCorp Partner to Secure Terraform-based Cloud Infrastructure Deployments

Welcome to the latest installment in our cloud security “shift-left” blog series. In our last post, we covered the importance of integrating cloud infrastructure security assessments into DevOps tools and enabling Infrastructure as Code IaC developers. This time, we’re focusing on Rapid7’s recent...

Rapid7 Takes Home 2 Awards and a Highly Commended Recognition at the 2022 Belfast Telegraph IT Awards

Rapid7 was honored at the Belfast Telegraph's annual IT Awards, Friday, taking home a pair of awards including the coveted “Best Place to Work in IT” in the large company category award, and the “Cyber Security Project of the Year” award, for groundbreaking machine learning research in applicatio...

CVE-2022-41622 and CVE-2022-41800 (FIXED): F5 BIG-IP and iControl REST Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Rapid7 discovered several vulnerabilities and exposures in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices running a customized distribution of CentOS detailed in F5's Base Operating Systems support article. The affected products are detailed in the vendor advisories below: CVE-2022-41622: BIG-IP and BIG-IQ are...

Rapid7’s Impact from OpenSSL Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-3786 & CVE-2022-3602)

As stated in our OpenSSL Buffer Overflow blog post, the CVE-2022-3786 & CVE-2022-3602 vulnerabilities affecting OpenSSL’s 3.0.x versions both rely on a maliciously crafted email address in a certificate. CVE-2022-3786 can overflow an arbitrary number of bytes on the stack with the “.” character a...

New Research: Optimizing DAST Vulnerability Triage with Deep Learning

On November 11th 2022, Rapid7 will for the first time publish and present state-of-the-art machine learning ML research at AISec, the leading venue for AI/ML cybersecurity innovations. Led by Dr. Stuart Millar, Senior Data Scientist, Rapid7's multi-disciplinary ML group has designed a novel deep...

New MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluation: Rapid7 MDR Excels

Every Managed Services organization claims they have the expertise and technology to effectively detect and respond to threats. But can they prove it? Assessing these services and how they’d perform in a real-world scenario just got easier with results from the first ever MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 4

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory, how to extract file system data from the device, and how to modify the data we've extracted. In this post, we'll cover how to gain root access...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

C is for cookie And that’s good enough for Apache CouchDB, apparently. Our very own Jack Heysel added an exploit module based on CVE-2022-24706 targeting CouchDB prior to 3.2.2, leveraging a special default ‘monster’ cookie that allows users to run OS commands. This fake computer I just made says...

Rapid7’s Impact from Apache Commons Text Vulnerability (CVE-2022-42889)

As stated in our Apache Commons Text blog post, CVE-2022-42889 is a vulnerability in the popular Apache Commons Text library that can result in code execution when processing malicious input, and affects versions 1.5 through 1.9. This vulnerability has been patched as of Commons Text version 1.10...

Go Inside Rapid7 MDR: Timelines and Tick Tocks

They say by 2025, half of all businesses will turn to a managed detection and response MDR service. Breaches are called “inevitable” now. And even with a blank check, most companies couldn’t hire their way to tight security: the expertise just isn’t out there. In this new eBook you’ll find real...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 3

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory and how to extract file system data from the device. In this post, we'll cover how to modify the data we've extracted. Modify extracted file...

OpenSSL Releases Patch for 2 New High-Severity Vulnerabilities

The OpenSSL project has rolled out fixes to contain two high-severity flaws in its widely used cryptography library that could result in a denial-of-service DoS and remote code execution. The issues, tracked as CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, have been described as buffer overrun vulnerabilities...