Metasploit Wrap-Up

An Especially Spooky Season for Moodle This release has not one, two, or three, but FOUR authenticated Moodle exploit modules, or should I say moodules? H00die comes through again with not just modules, but also an artisanal, bespoke library to support further work. Two target the spell check...

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...

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...

What’s New in InsightAppSec and tCell: Q2 2021 in Review

If there’s a theme to InsightAppSec and tCell updates and improvements in the second quarter, it would be “save time by building it into the process.” Building a more efficient process is key in further securing web applications. Can you get it done faster from home? Or is the quickest way to the...

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...

Patch Tuesday - June 2025

Microsoft is addressing 67 vulnerabilities this June 2025 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation for just one of the vulnerabilities published today, and that is reflected in CISA KEV. Separately, Microsoft is aware of existing public disclosure for one other freshly...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Fetch Based Payloads: Making the Path from Command Injection to Metasploit Session Shorter This week we’re releasing Metasploit fetch payloads. Fetch payloads are command-based payloads that leverage network-enabled applications on remote hosts and different protocol servers to serve, download, a...

Introducing: ‘Saved Filters’ in InsightCloudSec

Last year, when we launched Layered Context in InsightCloudSec, we knew we had something great on our hands. Not just because we provided a single view for cloud security practitioners to see their full cloud risk posture though, if we do say so ourselves, that’s pretty sweet. No, we knew we had...

Exploitation of Control Web Panel CVE-2022-44877

On January 3, 2023, security researcher Numan Türle published a proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2022-44877, an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Control Web Panel CWP, formerly known as CentOS Web Panel that had been fixed in an October 2022 release of CWP. The vulnerability...

Cybersecurity in the Infrastructure Bill

On August 10, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 H.R.3684. The bill comes in at 2,700+ pages, provides for $1.2T in spending, and includes several cybersecurity items. We expect this legislation to become law around late September and do not expect...

[Security Nation] Brian Honan on creating Ireland's first CERT

!\Security Nation\ Brian Honan on creating Ireland's first CERThttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Brian Honan of BH Consulting. Jen and Tod chat with Brian about his experience as a founder of Ireland's first...

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...

MDR Must-Haves, Part 6: Threat Validation and Detailed Reporting

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.” Engaging a managed security service provider—either a traditional MSSP or MDR provider—should never involve...

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...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of DNS

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...

Ongoing Social Engineering Campaign Linked to Black Basta Ransomware Operators

Co-authored by Rapid7 analysts Tyler McGraw, Thomas Elkins, and Evan McCann Executive Summary Rapid7 has identified an ongoing social engineering campaign that has been targeting multiple managed detection and response MDR customers. The incident involves a threat actor overwhelming a user's emai...

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...

Grow Your Career at Rapid7: North America Sales

As any sales professional knows, working for an organization where your growth and development are supported is key — not to mention selling a product you believe in and a company mission you can get behind. At Rapid7, you can check both of those boxes. With a stellar Business Development program...

Introducing the Manual Regex Editor in IDR’s Parsing Tool: Part 1

New to writing regular expressions? No problem. In this two-part blog series, we’ll cover the basics of regular expressions and how to write regular expression statements regex to extract fields from your logs while using the custom parsing tool. Like learning any new language, getting started ca...

How to Combat Alert Fatigue With Cloud-Based SIEM Tools

Today’s security teams are facing more complexity than ever before. IT environments are changing and expanding rapidly, resulting in proliferating data as organizations adopt more tools to stay on top of their sprawling environments. And with an abundance of tools comes an abundance of alerts,...

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...

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...

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...

CVE-2024-28995: Trivially Exploitable Information Disclosure Vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U

On June 5, 2024, SolarWinds disclosed CVE-2024-28995, a high-severity directory traversal vulnerability affecting their Serv-U file transfer server, which comes in two editions Serv-U FTP and Serv-U MFT. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to read sensiti...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

New module content 4 Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Authentication Bypass via Broken Access Control Authors: Emir Polat and Unknown Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 18447 contributed by emirpolatt Path: admin/http/atlassianconfluenceauthbypass AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-22515...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Basic discover script improvements This week two improvements were made to the script/resource/basicdiscovery.rc resource script. The first update from community member samsepi0x0 allowed commas in the RHOSTS value, making it easier to target multiple hosts. Additionally, adfoster-r7 improved the...

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...

3 Takeaways From The 2021 VDBIR: It’s An Appandemic

VDBIR Overview “Appandemic” sounds a bit like “appendectomy.” From a societal standpoint, it’s almost as alarming — if not more so — as the surgical procedure is from a personal standpoint. Because in the midst of the global pandemic we’ve all experienced over the past year and a half, web...

The Future is Friction-Free: Drive Innovation With DevOps + Security

Going from a centralized security group that dictates a “command and control” approach to cloud security toward a model of “trust but verify,” is at the core of the modern shift toward security-practice democratization. Organizational practices behind legacy, centralized data centers are being...

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...

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...

Supply Chain Compromise Leads to Trojanized Installers for Notezilla, RecentX, Copywhiz

The following Rapid7 analysts contributed to this research: Leo Gutierrez, Tyler McGraw, Sarah Lee, and Thomas Elkins. Executive Summary On Tuesday, June 18th, 2024, Rapid7 initiated an investigation into suspicious activity in a customer environment. Our investigation identified that the...

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 02/09/2024

Go go gadget Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Module This Metasploit release contains a module for one of 2024's hottest vulnerabilities to date: CVE-2024-0204. The path traversal vulnerability in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT allows for unauthenticated attackers to access the InitialAccountSetup.xhtml endpoint whi...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/02/2024

Shared RubySMB Service Improvements This week’s updates include improvements to Metasploit Framework’s SMB server implementation: the SMB server can now be reused across various SMB modules, which are now able to register their own unique shares and files. SMB modules can also now be executed...

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...

Reforming the UK’s Computer Misuse Act

The UK Home Office recently ran a Call for Information to investigate the Computer Misuse Act 1990 CMA. The CMA is the UK’s anti-hacking law, and as Rapid7 is active in the UK and highly engaged in public policy efforts to advance security, we provided feedback on the issues we see with the...

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...

Monitor Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Data With InsightIDR

InsightIDR was built in the cloud to support dynamic and rapidly changing environments—including remote workers, hybrid cloud and on-premises architectures, and fully cloud environments. Today, more and more organizations are adopting multi-cloud or hybrid environments, creating increasingly more...

Finding Results at the Intersection of Security and Engineering

As vice president and head of global security at ActiveCampaign, I’m fortunate to be able to draw on a multitude of experiences and successes in my career. I started in general network security, where I was involved in pen testing and security research. I worked at several multibillion-dollar Saa...

What’s New in InsightVM: Q4 2020 in Review

Here at Rapid7, we’re pretty proud of the work that goes into keeping InsightVM a leader in the vulnerability risk management space. We’re constantly investing in and improving InsightVM capabilities so our customers have no trouble seeing and proving value. That said, here’s our roundup of the n...

CVE-2025-32756 Exploited in the Wild, Affecting Multiple Fortinet Products

On May 13, 2025, Fortinet disclosed CVE-2025-32756, an unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow affecting multiple Fortinet products; including FortiVoice, FortiRecorder, FortiNDR, FortiMail, and FortiCamera. The vulnerability is rated as CVSS 9.6 Critical, and allows an unauthenticated remote...

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...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 01/19/24

Unicode your way to a php payload and three modules to add to your playbook for Ansible Our own jheysel-r7 added an exploit leveraging the fascinating tool of php filter chaining to prepend a payload using encoding conversion characters and h00die et. al. have come through and added 3 new Ansible...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Improved Ticket Forging Metasploit’s admin/kerberos/forgeticket module has been updated to work with Server 2022. In Windows Server 2022, Microsoft started requiring additional new PAC elements to be present - the PAC requestor and PAC attributes. The newly forged tickets will have the necessary...

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,...

Attack Surface Analysis Part 3: Red and Purple Teaming

Part 3: Red and Purple Teaming This is the third and final installment in our 2021 series around attack surface analysis. In part 1 I offered a description and the value and challenge of vulnerability assessment. Part 2 explored the why and how of conducting penetration testing and gave some tips...

Rapid7 and Velociraptor Join Forces

Exciting news! Rapid7 has acquired a digital forensics and incident response DFIR framework. Velociraptor is an open-source project that allows for hunting across thousands of hosts to provide actionable data in minutes and unprecedented visibility into the state of endpoints. A cyberattack can...