Metasploit Wrap Up: Belgian Waffles, Chocolates, and…Modules-Frites?

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When Business Email Compromise Starts Rewriting Reality

Business Email Compromise BEC operates on a familiar playbook. Threat actors breach a mailbox, silently monitor operations, map approval chains, and ultimately exploit that access to divert funds or exfiltrate sensitive assets. This dynamic is central to our analysis as we kick off a series aroun...

CVE-2026-94127: Critical Unauthenticated RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM

Overview On September 22, 2026, F5 published a security advisory for CVE-2026-94127, a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager APM. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to an affected...

CVE-2026-76461: Critical Cisco Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Overview On September 14, 2026, Cisco published a security advisory for CVE-2026-76461, a critical SQL injection vulnerability affecting Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway. The vulnerability has a reported CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and could allow an unauthenticated, remote...

CVE-2026-85706: Critical GitLab Path Traversal Exploited in the Wild

Overview On September 10, 2026, GitLab published a critical patch release for GitLab Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE. The release addresses CVE-2026-85706, a critical path traversal vulnerability CWE-22 in the repository commits API with a CVSSv3.1 score of 10.0. According to GitLa...

Metasploit Wrap Up: This One Goes to Sixteen!

This One Goes to Sixteen! Another banger from Metasploit with sixteen new modules, including ten exploit modules, with five on the CISA KEV list. Cisco, Papercut, Sonicwall, Jetbrains, and Langflow all have exploit modules, and not to be outdone, we even have a Metasploit scanner to watch the...

Credentialed Pre-Port Discovery: Don't Probe the Host, Ask it

If your scan engine already holds credentials for a host, it can ask that host which ports are open instead of probing for them. Every scan begins with the same question: which ports on this host are open? Everything after it, from identifying services to checking for vulnerabilities to evaluatin...

Patch Tuesday - September 2026

Microsoft is publishing 974 own-product vulnerabilities on September 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 723 vulnerabilities in Windows. Along with Microsoft fixes for 25 non-Microsoft CVEs, that brings the total number of vulnerabilities on the table today to 999. Whether this is the biggest Patch...

CVE-2026-86206, CVE-2026-86207: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass (FIXED)

Overview While conducting research into a recent N-able N-central authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2026-18577, Rapid7 Labs discovered two new vulnerabilities affecting the latest version of N-central. When chained together, these two vulnerabilities allow a remote unauthenticated attacker ...

Critical SonicWall SMA1000 Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-83548, CVE-2026-83549 Exploited in the Wild

Overview On September 1, 2026, SonicWall disclosed two vulnerabilities affecting SonicWall SMA1000 appliances that the vendor says are being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-83548 and CVE-2026-83549, can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE ...

Metasploit Wrap Up: Payloads and Exploits, and Scanners, Oh my!

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PaperCut NG/MF Critical Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

Overview On August 27, 2026, PaperCut Software published an urgent security advisory stating that it is investigating active exploitation of a vulnerability affecting PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF. PaperCut has confirmed customer incidents and is treating the issue as a security emergency. At the...

Rapid7 Analysis: Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution (CVE-2026-63520)

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CVE-2026-19490: Critical Vulnerability Affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway

Overview On August 19, 2026, a security advisory was published for CVE-2026-19490, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v4.0 base score of 9.3 and can be exploited remotely by an unauthenticated...

New Report: AI threats are here. Why Q2 2026 signals the end of traditional patch cycles

You can’t patch everything. So what do you fix first? Findings in Q2 2026 have changed traditional answers. The latest Quarterly Threat Landscape Report from Rapid7 Labs shows vulnerability disclosures still surging while attackers use automation and AI-assisted tooling to compress the time betwe...

Metasploit Wrap Up: Lot of summer shells and fit http profiles

This wrap-up brings a full-on shell parade. Thirteen shiny new modules landed, starting with a buffet of RCEs. WordPress WP2Shell, Ghost CMS, Joomla JCE, Langflow, OpenCATS, Pterodactyl Panel, SonicWall SMA1000, Ray Dashboard, a Pix-for-WooCommerce, and for those who like their exploits closer to...

AI is Working in the SOC. So Why are Security Executives More Worried Than Ever?

Something shifted in security operations over the last two years: AI stopped being a pilot program and became the plan. And if you survey 500 security professionals on whether that's going well – as Omdia did, commissioned by Rapid7 – you get a remarkable level of consensus: 97% report positive...

Patch Tuesday - August 2026

Microsoft is publishing 421 vulnerabilities on August 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 236 vulnerabilities in Windows. This is lower volume than last month’s record-breaking behemoth, but still one of the largest Patch Tuesday totals ever. There is no reason to suppose that Patch Tuesday will ever...

Rapid7 Analysis: Microsoft SharePoint JWT Token Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-55040)

Overview On July 14, 2026, Rapid7 and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-55040, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Microsoft SharePoint. Today we are publishing a technical analysis of the vulnerability along with an accompanying proof-of-concept PoC script. Figure 1: The Rapid7 Labs PoC...

CVE-2026-63520: Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against Microsoft SharePoint, resulting in the discovery of two new vulnerabilities that, when chained together, achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE against a vulnerable SharePoint server. Today, both Rapid7 and Microsoft ar...

Rapid7 Analysis: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in JetBrains TeamCity (CVE-2026-63077)

Overview On July 27, 2026, JetBrains published a security advisory for CVE-2026-63077, a critical unsafe deserialization vulnerability affecting JetBrains TeamCity. An attacker who can reach a TeamCity server over HTTP or HTTPS can exploit the agent polling protocol without credentials and execut...

CVE-2026-18577: N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild

Overview On August 2, 2026, N-able published a security advisory for CVE-2026-18577, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting N-central that was discovered being exploited in-the-wild after an incomplete fix for an earlier authentication bypass issue, CVE-2026-18556 was disclosed...

Rapid7 Analysis: KindaRails2Shell (CVE-2026-66066)

Overview On July 29, 2026, the Ruby on Rails project published a security advisory for CVE-2026-66066, an arbitrary file read in Active Storage applications that use the Vips image processor with untrusted uploads. The affected Active Storage ranges are = 8.0, = 8.1, 8.1.3.1. Vips is the default...

Metasploit Pro 5.1 Released

Today marks the release of Metasploit Pro 5.1 - building upon the foundation laid in 5.0, adding new evasion primitives for HTTP Meterpreter payloads, support for tracking service hierarchies, a deeper and more interactive Network Topology view, and continuing our commitment to a modern, consiste...

KindaRails2Shell: CVE-2026-66066, Critical Arbitrary File Read and Possible Remote Code Execution in Ruby on Rails

Overview On July 29, 2026, the Ruby on Rails project published a security advisory for CVE-2026-66066, a critical vulnerability affecting Active Storage image processing when used in conjunction with the libvips image processing library. The vulnerability has a CVSSv4 score of 9.5 and is classifi...

Metasploit Framework 6.5 Released

Today we’re proud to announce that Metasploit Framework version 6.5 has been released. Over the past two years, with the help of countless contributors, we’ve added 422 new modules along with a whole slew of new features. Malleable C2 Profiles for HTTP One of the latest and most requested feature...

Critical VMware vCenter Vulnerabilities Allow Authentication Bypass and Remote Code Execution (CVE-2026-59309, CVE-2026-59310)

Overview On July 29, 2026, Broadcom published security advisory VMSA-2026-0006 addressing multiple vulnerabilities in several VMWare products. Included in the advisory are two critical remotely exploitable vulnerabilities affecting VMware vCenter Server: CVE-2026-59309 and CVE-2026-59310. Both...

CVE-2026-63077: Critical unauthenticated remote code execution in JetBrains TeamCity

Overview On July 27, 2026, JetBrains published a security advisory for CVE-2026-63077, a critical unauthenticated vulnerability affecting all versions of TeamCity On-Premises. The issue is classified as deserialization of untrusted data and has a CVSS score of 9.8. An unauthenticated remote...

Rapid7 Analysis: Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-16232)

Overview On July 22, 2026, Check Point published a security advisory for CVE-2026-16232, an authentication bypass in the SmartConsole login process affecting Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server MDS. By leveraging CVE-2026-16232, an unauthenticated attacker can...

CVE-2026-16232: Critical Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild

Overview On July 22, 2026, Check Point published a security advisory for multiple vulnerabilities affecting Security Management, Multi-Domain Management, and firewall products. The most urgent of these is CVE-2026-16232, an authentication bypass in the SmartConsole login process classified as...

What’s New in Rapid7 Products and Services: Q2 2026 in Review

If Q1 set the pace for Rapid7's tools, Q2 accelerated it. This quarter brought a steady stream of product enhancements, platform investments, and customer-driven innovation across Rapid7’s portfolio. Each release was designed with a clear goal in mind: helping security teams reduce complexity whi...

CVE-2026-63030: wp2shell a Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in WordPress Core

Overview On July 17, 2026, a GitHub Security Advisory was published for CVE-2026-63030, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting WordPress Core. While the official GitHub security advisory classifies the severity as Critical, the vulnerability has currently been...

Metasploit Wrap Up: An HTTP to SMB relay plus Payload Improvements

Metasploit Wrap Up Housekeeping While the Metasploit Framework will be continuing its weekly release cadence, bringing you dear reader our latest content, the Weekly Wrap Up is being shifted to a bi-weekly cadence. The team is planning to use the additional time between posts to record demos of...

CVE-2026-58644: Microsoft SharePoint Server Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Overview On July 14, 2026, Microsoft published a security advisory addressing CVE-2026-58644, a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability affecting on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server deployments. The vulnerability, which carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8 Critical, results from the...

Sunsetting the Public AttackerKB Platform

What’s changing, where AttackerKB-style analysis will live, and how users can continue finding Rapid7 vulnerability intelligence. On August 18, Rapid7 will sunset the standalone public AttackerKB website as part of a broader effort to unify our vulnerability intelligence, exploit analysis, and...

Rapid7 MDR Team Discovers New SonicWall SMA1000 Zero Days being Actively Exploited (CVE-2026-15409, CVE-2026-15410)

Overview On July 14, 2026, SonicWall published a security advisory addressing two vulnerabilities affecting SMA1000 Series remote access appliances, including the critical server-side request forgery SSRF vulnerability CVE-2026-15409 CVSS 10.0 and the high-severity code injection vulnerability...

Patch Tuesday - July 2026

Microsoft is publishing 622 vulnerabilities on July 2026 Patch Tuesday, including a record-breaking 416 Windows vulnerabilities. Microsoft is aware of exploitation in the wild for two of the vulnerabilities published today, both of which are listed on CISA KEV, as well as public disclosure for on...

CVE-2026-55040: Microsoft SharePoint JWT Token Authentication Bypass (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against Microsoft SharePoint, resulting in the discovery of two new vulnerabilities that, when chained together, achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE against a vulnerable SharePoint server. Today, both Rapid7 and Microsoft ar...

Weekly Metasploit Update: Exploits for FlowiseAI CSV Agent and MacOS Package Kit

More AI, more software, more bugs! AI, it's all you hear about nowadays and everyone's got an opinion on it. Here at Metasploit, we care less about those opinions and more about the growing attack surface all this new software brings with it yeehaw exploits!. Take for example the new Flowise CSV...

Weekly Metasploit Update: Modules for SMB-to-Meterpreter, Peyara Remote Mouse RCE exploit, and more

It's Time to Upgrade Your SMB Session This week, Metasploit contributor Dean Welch has added an SMB to Meterpreter session upgrade module. It uses PsExec to facilitate the upgrade. Users can load the module with use windows/manage/smbtometerpreter and specify the session number they wish to...

Weekly Metasploit Update: Modules for Audiobookshelf, LiteLLM, Next.js, Dalfox and more

Help shape the future of Metasploit Framework We are planning future work in relation to the evasion capabilities present in Metasploit Framework, and how they function/are presented to users. We are currently accepting responses to our feedback form, which means that you can shape the future of...

Weekly Metasploit Update: NTLM Relay Priv Esc, MCP Server Integration, Paperclip AI RCE Chain, and more

This week's release includes five new modules, including a full unauthenticated RCE chain for Paperclip AI and a VS Code extension persistence technique. On the post-exploitation side, the new windows/local/ntlmrelay2self module coerces the local machine account to authenticate via...

Beyond the Score: Using AI to Translate CVEs into Real-World Business Risk

Security leaders rarely struggle to gather data, but they often struggle to turn that data into something clear and meaningful for the business. In a typical week, a CISO might receive a report listing hundreds or even thousands of vulnerabilities, most of them accompanied by CVSS scores that mak...

Weekly Metasploit Update: New Kerberos/Certificate tracing options, and multiple new modules

New Tracing Options As hard as we try to ensure that Metasploit is bug free, issues inevitably come up. Whether you’re running a module on an op or writing a new one, what we can do is make the debugging experience easier. To that end one of our two Google Summer of Code GSoC projects is here to...

Active Exploitation of Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day (CVE-2026-35273)

Overview On June 10, 2026, Oracle published a security alert for CVE-2026-35273, a critical vulnerability in the Updates Environment Management component of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Oracle released an out-of-band patch the same day as the advisory, underscoring the urgency of remediatio...

Criminal AI-as-a-Service in 2026: How the Underground Market Is Operationalizing Cybercrime

Introduction The underground market for criminally oriented generative AI has moved beyond the early hype surrounding 'malicious chatbots.' The gradual integration of AI as a productivity layer within cybercrime operations has become the dominant story, indicating that while the potential for ful...

CVE-2026-10520, CVE-2026-10523 - Multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Sentry

Overview On June 9, 2026, Ivanti published a security advisory for two critical vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Sentry formerly known as MobileIron Sentry, which per the vendor website is an “in-line gateway that manages, encrypts, and secures traffic between the mobile device and back-end...

Patch Tuesday - June 2026

Microsoft is publishing 200 vulnerabilities on June 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is not aware of exploitation in the wild for any of these vulnerabilities, and is aware of public disclosure for three. This is similar to last month’s Patch Tuesday, however several of last month’s vulnerabilities...

Critical Check Point VPN Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild (CVE-2026-50751)

Overview On June 8, 2026, Check Point published a security advisory for CVE-2026-50751, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Check Point Remote Access VPN, Mobile Access, and Spark Firewall products. The vulnerability affects deployments configured to use the deprecated IKEv1...

Weekly Metasploit Update: Apache ActiveMQ RCE, Gogs Rebase RCE, and Windows Kernel Pointer Enum

When Open Source is a bit too Open Several fun modules landed this week, including an Apache RCE, Windows Kernel pointer collection, and Gogs RCE via naming. Leading off is Gogs' RCE that allows an attacker to execute commands by naming their branch --exec and requesting a rebase. Another useful...