Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer Among Security Analytics Providers by Leading Industry Report

At Rapid7, we recognize that security professionals are facing a more challenging landscape than ever before. The mission of InsightIDR—our natively cloud SIEM—is to remove the drudgery and operational burdens associated with traditional approaches, and drive efficient, effective detection and...

Kong Gateway Admin API Remote Code Execution

frozenstringliteral: true This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Kong Gateway Admin API Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = ' This module uses the Kong admin API to create a route...

CVE-2020-7378: OpenCRX Unverified Password Change (FIXED)

OpenCRX version 4.30 and version 5.0-20200717 suffers from an unverified password change vulnerability, which is an instance of CWE-620. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 9.1, which is usually CRITICAL, since it effectively allows anyone who can connect to the OpenCRX server to change the...

The vulnerability of the Rapid7 Nexpose vulnerability management system lies in the insufficient protection of the SQL query structure, allowing attackers to enhance their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Rapid7 Nexpose vulnerability management system is related to insufficient protection of the SQL query structure. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to enhance their privileges remotely...

Behind the Scenes: Under the Hoodie 2020 Video Series

Longtime fans of our Under the Hoodie video series may have noticed that this year’s videos looked, well, a little different. Because we were all working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we realized that it was no longer feasible to sit down in person and interview our pen testing services...

Rapid7 Metasploit Framework msfvenom APK Template Command Injection

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'rex/zip/jar' class MetasploitModule 'Rapid7 Metasploit Framework msfvenom APK Template Command Injection', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a command...

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

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 ...

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...

Rapid7 Metasploit Framework msfvenom APK Template Command Injection

This module exploits a command injection vulnerability in Metasploit Framework's msfvenom payload generator when using a crafted APK file as an Android payload template. Affects Metasploit Framework -x Module Options msf use exploit/unix/fileformat/metasploit/msfvenomapktemplatecmdinjection msf...

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,...