Ni8mare and N8scape flaws among multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting n8n

Overview On November 18, 2025, a patched release was published for a critical unauthenticated file read vulnerability in n8n, a popular piece of automation software. The advisory for this vulnerability, CVE-2026-21858, was subsequently published on January 7, 2026; the vulnerability holds a CVSS...

Metasploit 2024 Annual Wrap-Up

Another year has come and gone, and the Metasploit team has taken some time to review the year’s notable additions. This year saw some great new features added, Metasploit 6.4 released and a slew of new modules. We’re grateful to the community members new and old that have submitted modules and...

Rapid7 doubles down on a platform approach for Vulnerability Risk Management

This week, Rapid7 was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q3 2023. The report, which included 11 vulnerability risk management vendors, represented Rapid7's inclusion in the Wave report for vulnerability management. We are proud to be recognized for our...

[Security Nation] Taki Uchiyama of Panasonic on Product Security and Incident Response

!\Security Nation\ Taki Uchiyama of Panasonic on Product Security and Incident Responsehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/09/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Taki Uchiyama about his work on Panasonic’s Product Security Incident Response...

[Security Nation] Richard Kaufmann on Cybersecurity in Home Healthcare

!\Security Nation\ Richard Kaufmann on Cybersecurity in Home Healthcarehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined for the second time! by Richard Kaufmann, CISO at Amedisys, a leading provider of home healthcare. He’ll te...

SolarWinds SUNBURST Backdoor Supply Chain Attack: What You Need to Know

On Dec. 12, 2020, FireEye provided detailed information on a widespread attack campaign involving a backdoored component of the SolarWinds Orion platform, which is used by organizations to monitor and manage IT infrastructure. FireEye has given the campaign an identifier of UNC2452 and is further...

NSIS Abuse and sRDI Shellcode: Anatomy of the Winos 4.0 Campaign

Co-authored byAnna Širokova and Ivan Feigl Executive summary Rapid7 has been tracking a malware campaign that uses fake software installers disguised as popular apps like VPN and QQBrowser—to deliver Winos v4.0, a hard-to-detect malware that runs entirely in memory and gives attackers remote...

InsightIDR AI Alert Triage Automatically Classifies Alerts with 99.93% Accuracy

Rapid7 AI Alert Triage helps SOC analysts quickly and accurately triage thousands of daily alerts, improving efficiency and enabling focus. One universal truth in Security Operations Centers SOCs is that analysts are overwhelmed by the high volume of alerts they receive. In a recent survey, SOC...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/17/2025

Clarity in Cleo Exploitation Last Month, Huntress reported that several Cleo products were being attacked in the wild, including Harmony, VLTrader, and LexiCom. Cleo announced CVE-2024-50623 and that these issues were patched in 5.8.0.21, but Huntress reported the vulnerability was still in those...

Ongoing Malvertising Campaign leads to Ransomware

Executive Summary Rapid7 has observed an ongoing campaign to distribute trojanized installers for WinSCP and PuTTY via malicious ads on commonly used search engines, where clicking on the ad leads to typo squatted domains. In at least one observed case, the infection has led to the attempted...

When One Door Opens, Keep It Open: A New Tool for Physical Security Testing

As penetration testers, we spend most of our time working with different types of networks, applications, and hardware devices. Physical security is another fun area we get to work in during physical social engineering penetration tests and red team engagements, which sometimes includes attempts ...

Automated remediation level 4: Actual automation

Let’s get to automatically remediating already! This entry will be the last in our series based on The 4 Levels of Automated Remediation. After the previous 3 steps—where we discussed everything from logging to best practices to account hygiene—it’s time to talk about the actions that really let...

Kill Chains: Part 3→What’s Next

Life, the Universe, and Kill Chains As the final entry in this blog series, we want to quickly recap what we have previously discussed and also look into the possible future of kill chains. If you haven’t already done so, please make sure to read the previous 2 entries in this series: Kill chains...

Rapid7 Joins Statement On DMCA Lawsuits Against Security Tools

Rapid7 has joined a statement from members of the cybersecurity community cautioning against using Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA to suppress beneficial security tools. In the past, Rapid7 has written extensively about DMCA Sec. 1201’s impact on performing independent...

RCE to Sliver: IR Tales from the Field

Rapid7 Incident Response consultants Noah Hemker, Tyler Starks, and malware analyst Tom Elkins contributed analysis and insight to this blog. Rapid7 Incident Response was engaged to investigate an incident involving unauthorized access to two publicly-facing Confluence servers that were the sourc...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Pollution in Kibana This week, contributor h00die added a module that leverages a prototype pollution bug in Kibana prior to version 7.6.3. Particularly, this issue is within the Upgrade Assistant and enables an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be triggered by sending a...

OWASP Top 10 Deep Dive: Identification and Authentication Failures

In the 2021 edition of the OWASP top 10 list, Broken Authentication was changed to Identification and Authentication Failures. This term bundles in a number of existing items like cryptography failures, session fixation, default login credentials, and brute-forcing access. Additionally, this...

Distribute Reports to Email Addresses in InsightVM

Rapid7 is investing heavily in the reporting and dashboard capabilities of InsightVM. In 2021 alone, we launched the ability to filter dashboards via single query, a new report creation wizard powered by our query builder, several use-case-driven dashboard templates, and most recently, the abilit...

[Security Nation] Philipp Amann on No More Ransom

!\Security Nation\ Philipp Amann on No More Ransomhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/securitynationlogo-2.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we're joined by Philipp Amann of Europol. Jen and Tod chat with Philipp about No More Ransom, a Europol-lead effort to combat ransomware by...

What’s New in InsightVM: Q1 2021 in Review

Are you ready to return to the office? At many companies around the world, plans are being put into place for a phased workforce return to physical offices. With big moves come big changes, which inevitably reveal new vulnerabilities. For many across the security landscape, it’s as if hundreds of...

Chrysalis, Notepad++, and Supply Chain Risk: What it Means, and What to Do Next

When Rapid7 published its analysis of the Chrysalis backdoor linked to a compromise of Notepad++ update infrastructure, it raised understandable questions from customers and security teams. The investigation showed that attackers did not exploit a flaw in the application itself. Instead, they...

Critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet CVE-2025-59718, CVE-2025-59719, CVE-2026-24858 exploited in the wild

Overview Update for CVE-2026-24858: On January 27, 2026, Fortinet disclosedCVE-2026-24858 , a critical unauthenticated vulnerability allowing authentication bypass via Fortinet’s cloud SSO. Confirmed as a net-new vulnerability rather than a patch bypass, it has beenobserved under active zero-day...

CVE-2024-4978: Backdoored Justice AV Solutions Viewer Software Used in Apparent Supply Chain Attack

The following Rapid7 team members contributed to this blog: Ipek Solak, Thomas Elkins, Evan McCann, Matthew Smith, Jake McMahon, Tyler McGraw, Ryan Emmons, Stephen Fewer, and John Fenninger Overview Justice AV Solutions JAVS is a U.S.-based company specializing in digital audio-visual recording...

Rapid7 Recognized in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM

Command Your Attack Surface with a next-gen SIEM built for the Cloud First Era Rapid7 is excited to share that we are named a Challenger for InsightIDR in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM. In a crowded and constantly changing space, this is our sixth time to be recognized in the report...

Unauthenticated CrushFTP Zero-Day Enables Complete Server Compromise

Rapid7 vulnerability researcher Ryan Emmons contributed to this blog. On Friday, April 19, 2024, managed file transfer vendor CrushFTP released information to a private mailing list on a new zero-day vulnerability affecting versions below 10.7.1 and 11.1.0 as well as legacy 9.x versions across al...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/05/2024

New ESC4 Templates for AD CS Metasploit added capabilities for exploiting the ESC family of flaws in AD CS in Metasploit 6.3. The ESC4 technique in particular has been supported for some time now thanks to the adcscerttemplates module which enables users to read and write certificate template...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Dec. 15, 2023

Continuing the 12th Labor of Metasploit Metasploit continues its Herculean task of increasing our toolset to tame Kerberos by adding support for ASREP Roasting, which allows retrieving the password hashes of users who have Do not require Kerberos preauthentication set on the domain controller. Th...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

PowershellPoint This week’s new features and improvements start with two new exploit modules leveraging CVE-2023-34960 Chamilo versions 1.11.18 and below and CVE-2023-26469 in Jorani 1.0.0. Like CVE-2023-34960, I too, feel attacked by PowerPoint sometimes. We also have several improvements,...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

I like to MOVEit, MOVEit, We like to MOVEit! Party hard just like it's Mardi Gras! bwatters-r7 delivered the dance moves this week with a masterful performance. The windows/http/moveitcve202334362 module is available for all your party needs, taking advantage of CVE-2023-34362, this module gets...

InsightIDR’s NTA Capabilities Expanded to AWS

We’re excited to announce we have expanded the Network Traffic Analysis NTA capabilities in InsightIDR to support Amazon Web Services AWS environments. This means InsightIDR and MDR customers can now ingest detailed network data from AWS, including north/south and east/west traffic across a...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of NTP

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...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 09/20/2024

New module content 3 update-motd.d Persistence Author: Julien Voisin Type: Exploit Pull request: 19454 contributed by jvoisin Path: linux/local/motdpersistence Description: This adds a post module to keep persistence on a Linux target by writing a motd bash script triggered with root privileges...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Scanner That Pulls Sensitive Information From Joomla Installations This week's Metasploit release includes a module for CVE-2023-23752 by h00die. Did you know about the improper API access vulnerability in Joomla installations, specifically Joomla versions between 4.0.0 and 4.2.7, inclusive? This...

2022 Planning: Prioritizing Defense and Mitigation Through Left of Boom

In the military, the term “left of boom" refers to the strategy and tactics required to prevent — and protect personnel from — explosions by making proactive decisions before the event happens. Unless you've been fortunate enough to avoid tech and media press for the past 24 months, it should be...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Vulnerability is in the eye of the beholder Exploiting firmware authored by UDP Technology and provided to multiple large OEMs including Geutebruck, community contributor TrGFxX has authored a neat module that allows RCE as root on machines running the web interface of the Geutebruck G-Cam and...

MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 2: Ingestion of Network Device Data

This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” There are many factors to consider when assessing which Managed Detection and Response MDR vendor is the right f...

Securing Your Web App, One Robot at a Time

Modern web apps are two things: complex, and under persistent attack. Any publicly accessible web application can receive up to tens of thousands of attacks a month. While that sounds like a reason to immediately pull the plug and find a safe space to hide, these are likely spread across the...

Patch Tuesday - April 2025

Microsoft is addressing 121 vulnerabilities this April 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is more than twice as many as last month. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for just one of the vulnerabilities published today, which is already reflected in CISA KEV. Once again, Microsoft has...

New “CleverSoar” Installer Targets Chinese and Vietnamese Users

CleverSoar Installer Used to Deploy Nidhogg Rootkit and Winos4.0 Framework Against Targeted Users In early November, Rapid7 Labs identified a new, highly evasive malware installer, 'CleverSoar,' targeting Chinese and Vietnamese-speaking victims. CleverSoar is designed to deploy and protect multip...

Backdoored 3CXDesktopApp Installer Used in Active Threat Campaign

Emergent threats evolve quickly. We will update this blog with new information as it comes to light and we are able to verify it. Erick Galinkin, Ted Samuels, Zach Dayton, Eoin Miller, Caitlin Condon, Stephen Fewer, Spencer McIntyre, and Christiaan Beek all contributed to this blog. On Wednesday,...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DefCon IoT Village, Part 2

In our last post, we discussed how we set up Rapid7's hands-on exercise at the Defcon 29 IoT Village. Now, with that foundation laid, we'll get into how to determine whether the header we created is UART. When trying to determine baud rate for IoT devices, I often just guess. Generally, for typic...

Want to stay ahead of emerging threats? Here’s how.

Are you working with good information? A key question security organizations might ask themselves with regard to emerging — or imminent — threats: Are the systems we have logging the correct information? They may need that information to hunt threats or to reconstruct what an attacker did while...

Rapid7 Releases New Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER): ASX 200

Today, we are excited to release the third report in our Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER series, which digs into cyber-exposure among organizations in Australia’s ASX 200. This series focuses on five key areas we believe CISOs at mega-corporations actually have a shot at accomplishing, and wi...

InsightVM Now Integrates With Snyk for Deep Visibility Into Container Vulnerabilities

We know many development teams these days are taking advantage of containerized software applications that may contain all of the necessary code, runtime, system tools, and libraries needed to run an application. Containers are easy to spin up and down, experiment with, and get things done quickl...

Announcing the 2020 December Metasploit community CTF

It’s time for another Metasploit community CTF! We're back on our usual end-of-year schedule this time around, and we’re doing a few things differently. Past CTFs have featured a wide range of challenges across different architectures, difficulty levels, and targets. This year, we wanted to make...

Genie Aladdin Connect Retrofit Garage Door Opener: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Rapid7, Inc. Rapid7 discovered vulnerabilities in Aladdin Connect retrofit kit garage door opener and Android mobile application produced by Genie. The affected products are: Aladdin Garage door smart retrofit kit, Model ALDCM Android Mobile application ALADDIN Connect, Version 5.65 Build 2075...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Wordpress Exploitation Returns What's life without a little WordPress exploitation? Courtesy of Hacker5preme aka Ron Jost and h00die, we now have an exploit for CVE-2021-24862, a bug in the RestorationMagic WordPress plugin prior to 5.0.1.6 whereby user input was not properly escaped in the...

Recog: Data Rules Everything Around Me

The recog project — a recognition framework used to identify products, operating systems, and hardware through matching network probe data against its extensive fingerprint collection — has been around for many years. In the beginning, Rapid7 used it internally as part of the Nexpose vulnerabilit...

CVE-2021-3927[67]: Fortress S03 WiFi Home Security System Vulnerabilities

!CVE-2021-3927\67: Fortress S03 WiFi Home Security System Vulnerabilitieshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/fortress-vuln.jpg Rapid7 researcher Arvind Vishwakarma discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Fortress S03 WiFi Home Security System. These vulnerabilities could result in...