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 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...

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 ...

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...

Popular Mobile Browsers Found Vulnerable To Address Bar Spoofing Attacks

--- Graphic for illustration Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details about an address bar spoofing vulnerability affecting multiple mobile browsers, such as Apple Safari and Opera Touch, leaving the door open for spear-phishing attacks and delivering malware. Other impacted browser...

Mobile Browser Bugs Open Safari, Opera Users to Malware

A set of address-bar spoofing vulnerabilities that affect a number of mobile browsers open the door for malware delivery, phishing and disinformation campaigns. The bugs, reported by Rapid7 and independent researcher Rafay Baloch, affect six browsers, ranging from the common Apple Safari, Opera...

Are You Still Running End-of-Life Windows Servers?

Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 reached their end of life EOL on Jan. 14, 2020. What does that mean in practice? Well, any instances running these versions of Windows Server are no longer supported by Microsoft—no more automated fixes, updates, or technical assistance. From a security standpoint,...

Rapid7 Nexpose SQL Injection Vulnerability

Rapid7 Nexpose is a set of vulnerability management software from Rapid7, Inc. that can utilize scanning results to deeply probe the network. The software supports scanning the configuration environment for errors, vulnerabilities, malware, and more. An SQL injection vulnerability exists in Rapid...

CVE-2020-16952 — Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint when the software fails to check the source markup of an application package, aka ‘Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability’. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-16951. Recent assessments: wvu-r7 at October 13,...

Fewer False Alarms, Faster Reporting: InsightVM Introduces New One-Click Fix For False Positives

Let’s talk about false positives. They’re frustrating and faulty, but also about as certain as death and taxes for anyone working in IT security. The good news? We’ve added even more ways to reduce the noise they cause. According to Forrester Consulting’s 2019 study, customers have experienced a...

Vulnerability fixed in Rapid7 Nexpose

Rapid7 has fixed a vulnerability in Nexpose. The vulnerability potentially allows a local malicious person to perform a SQL injection attack that could access gain access to sensitive data or manipulate data. Rapid7 has released updates to fix the vulnerability in Nexpose 6.6.49. For more...

CVE-2020-7383

A SQL Injection issue in Rapid7 Nexpose version prior to 6.6.49 that may have allowed an authenticated user with a low permission level to access resources & make changes they should not have been able to access...

CVE-2020-7383

A SQL Injection issue in Rapid7 Nexpose version prior to 6.6.49 that may have allowed an authenticated user with a low permission level to access resources & make changes they should not have been able to access...

Sql injection

A SQL Injection issue in Rapid7 Nexpose version prior to 6.6.49 that may have allowed an authenticated user with a low permission level to access resources & make changes they should not have been able to access...