Exploitability Analysis: Smash the Ref Bug Class

In April 2020, security researcher Gil Dabah published a paper on a set of vulnerabilities he had discovered within the Win32k subsystem of the Windows operating system. These vulnerabilities demonstrated instances of a new class of bugs, dubbed “Smash the Ref.” Dabah’s research included 13 test...

Lorex 2K Indoor Wi-Fi Security Camera: Multiple Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

The Lorex 2K Indoor Wi-Fi Security Camera is a consumer security device that provides cloud-based video camera surveillance capabilities. This device was a target at the 2024 Pwn2Own IoT competition. Rapid7 developed an unauthenticated remote code execution RCE exploit chain as an entry for the...

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

AD CS certificate templates Our very own Spencer McIntyre has developed a new module that allows for creating, reading, updating and deleting certificate template objects from Active Directory. ESC4 Exploitation These changes notably enables the exploitation of the technique identified as ESC4...

[Security Nation] Daniel Crowley on Running a Cybersecurity Internship

!\Security Nation\ Daniel Crowley on Running a Cybersecurity Internshiphttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/securitynationlogo-1.jpg On the latest episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Daniel Crowley, IBM X-Force Red’s Research Director — aka Global Research Baron a title that...

Overview of the EU’s draft NIS 2 Directive

Anticipating stronger security requirements for critical EU sectors A pdf copy of this brief is available here. The EU Commission recently proposed a revision to its Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems NIS. The existing NIS Directive “NIS 1” requires EU Member States to enact...

Rapid7 Announces Release of New tCell Amazon CloudFront Agent

Cloud-native approaches to building, hosting, and delivering web applications are growing rapidly. Content delivery networks CDNs such as Amazon CloudFront are on the rise, pushing content closer to end users to improve the performance of web applications. To protect web applications security tea...

Addressing the OT-IT Risk and Asset Inventory Gap

Cyber-espionage and exploitation from nation-state-sanctioned actors have only become more prevalent in recent years, with recent examples including the SolarWinds attack, which was attributed to nation-state actors with alleged Russian ties. There are suspicions that sensitive information has be...

Rapid7 Acquires Leading Kubernetes Security Provider, Alcide

Organizations around the globe continue to embrace the flexibility, speed, and agility of the cloud. Those that have adopted it are able to accelerate innovation and deliver real value to their customers faster than ever before. However, while the cloud can bring a tremendous amount of benefits t...

CVE-2024-40766: Critical Improper Access Control Vulnerability Affecting SonicWall Devices

On August 22, 2024, security firm SonicWall published an advisory on CVE-2024-40766, a critical improper access control vulnerability affecting SonicOS, the operating system that runs on the company’s physical and virtual firewalls. While CVE-2024-40766 was not known to be exploited in the wild a...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 12/8/2023

Are You Looking for ACTION? Our very own adfoster-r7 has added a new feature that adds module actions, targets, and aliases to the search feature in Metasploit Framework. As we continue to add modules with diverse goals or targets, we’ve found ourselves leaning on these flags more and more...

Cybersecurity as Digital Detective Work: DFIR and Its 3 Key Components

Thanks to CSI and the many other crime-solving shows that have grasped our collective imagination for decades, we're all at least somewhat familiar with the field of forensics and its unique appeal. At some point, anyone who's watched these series has probably envisioned themselves in the...

[The Lost Bots] Episode 3: Stories From the SOC

!\The Lost Bots\ Episode 3: Stories From the SOChttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpg Welcome back to The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice Advisor Jeffrey Gardner talks all things security wi...

Introducing InsightCloudSec

A little over a year ago, when DivvyCloud first combined forces with Rapid7, I wrote that we did it because of culture, technology alignment, and the opportunity to drive even greater innovation in cloud security. Those core values remain true, and so does something else. As more organizations...

Ivanti Connect Secure CVE-2025-22457 exploited in the wild

On Thursday, April 3, 2025, Ivanti disclosed a critical severity vulnerability affecting Ivanti Connect Secure, Pulse Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways. CVE-2025-22457 is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the...

Investigating a SharePoint Compromise: IR Tales from the Field

Executive summary Rapid7’s Incident Response team recently investigated a Microsoft Exchange service account with domain administrator privileges. Our investigation uncovered an attacker who accessed a server without authorization and moved laterally across the network, compromising the entire...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 10/25/2024

Hackers and Vampires Agree: Every Byte Counts Headlining the release today is a new exploit module by jheysel-r7 that chains two vulnerabilities to target Magento/Adobe Commerce systems: the first, CVE-2024-34102 is an arbitrary file read used to determine the version and layout of the glibc...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 07/12/2024

The Usual Suspects This release features two new exploits targeting old friends: Confluence and Ivanti. CVE-2024-21683 is a very easy vulnerability to exploit, but as pointed out in the AttackerKB Review, it requires authentication as a ‘Confluence Administrator.’ On the other hand, CVE-2024-2982...

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

It’s open season on Openfire with a new RCE module in Metasploit This week the Metasploit framework saw the addition of an RCE module which exploits path traversal vulnerability in the instant messaging and group chat server, Openfire. The module was submitted by the one and only community...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

ADCS - ESC Vulnerable certificate template finder Our very own Grant Willcox has developed a new module which allows users to query a LDAP server for vulnerable Active Directory Certificate Services AD CS certificate templates. The module will print the detected certificate details, and the attac...

Lessons in IoT Hacking: How to Dead-Bug a BGA Flash Memory Chip

Dead-bugging — what is that, you ask? The concept comes from the idea that a memory chip, once it’s flipped over so you can attach wires to it, looks a little like a dead bug on its back. So why would we do this for the purposes of IoT hacking? The typical reason is if you want to extract the...

Cloud Pentesting, Pt. 2: Testing Across Different Deployments

In part one of this series, we broke down the various types of cloud deployments. So, pentesting in the cloud is just like on-prem, right? Who asks these loaded questions!? The answer is yes and no. It depends on how a customer has set up their cloud deployment. Let’s cover a few basics first,...

Patch Now: SonicWall Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities in SMA 100 Devices

Summary On December 7, 2021, SonicWall released a security advisory that includes patching guidance for five vulnerabilities in SonicWall SMA 100 series devices that were discovered by Rapid7 including CVE-2021-20038 which is rated CVSSv3 9.8, critical, as well as several other CVEs discovered by...

Once Again, Rapid7 Named a Leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM

Rapid7 is elated for InsightIDR to be recognized as a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management SIEM. This is the second consecutive time our SaaS SIEM—InsightIDR—has been named a Leader in this report. Access the full complimentary report from us her...

Don’t Put It on the Internet: Tesla Backup Gateway Edition

Derek Abdine, formerly Director of Rapid7 Labs, now CTO at Censys, contributed this blog post. This blog post aims to increase user awareness of the privacy and security risks of connecting devices to the internet. In this edition, we address Tesla Backup Gateways and identify some key areas wher...

Metasploit Wrap-up 06/06/25

ThinManager Path Traversal CVE-2023-27855 Arbitrary File Upload Authors: Michael Heinzl and Tenable Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 20138 contributed by h4x-x0r Path: admin/networking/thinmanagertraversalupload AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-2917 Description: Adds an auxiliary module that targets...

Fortinet Firewalls Hit with New Zero-Day Attack, Older Data Leak

Executive summary Rapid7 is investigating two separate events affecting Fortinet firewall customers: Zero-day exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, an authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy disclosed earlier this week. Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to gain...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Veeam Backup & Replication

On Wednesday, September 4, 2024, backup and recovery software provider Veeam released their September security bulletin disclosing various vulnerabilities in Veeam products. One of the higher-severity vulnerabilities included in the bulletin is CVE-2024-40711, a critical unauthenticated remote co...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/10/2024

Password Spraying support Multiple bruteforce/login scanner modules have been updated to support a PASSWORDSPRAY module option. This work was completed in pull request 19079 from nrathaus as well as an additional update from our developers . When the password spraying option is set, the order of...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 03/01/2024

Connect the dots from authentication bypass to remote code execution This week, our very own sfewer-r7 added a new exploit module that leverages an authentication bypass vulnerability in ConnectWise ScreenConnect to achieve remote code execution. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-1709, affects all...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 01/12/24

New module content 1 Windows Gather Mikrotik Winbox "Keep Password" Credentials Extractor Author: Pasquale 'sid' Fiorillo Type: Post Pull request: 18604 contributed by siddolo Path: windows/gather/credentials/winboxsettings Description: This pull request introduces a new post module to extract th...

Little Crumbs Can Lead To Giants

This week is the Virus Bulletin Conference in London. Part of the conference is the Cyber Threat Alliance summit, where CTA members like Rapid7 showcase their research into all kinds of cyber threats and techniques. Traditionally, when we investigate a campaign, the focus is mostly on the code of...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Rocket Software UniRPC server (Fixed)

In early 2023, Rapid7 discovered several vulnerabilities in Rocket Software's UniData and UniVerse UniRPC server and related services running on the Linux platform. Rapid7 worked with Rocket Software to fix the issues and coordinate this disclosure. This disclosure will detail a number of differe...

Rapid7 Recognized on Bloomberg Gender Equality Index, Continues Commitments to Support DEI

For the fifth year in a row, Rapid7 is pleased to share that we've been included in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index. The Gender Equality Index GEI recognizes publicly traded companies for being transparent in their commitment to gender equality. This includes how they score in areas such as...

CVE-2022-4261: Rapid7 Nexpose Update Validation Issue (FIXED)

On November 14, 2022, Rapid7's product engineering team discovered that the mechanism in Nexpose and InsightVM used to validate the source of an update file was unreliable. This failure, which involved the internal cryptographic validation of received updates, was designated as CVE-2022-4261, and...

NPM Library (ua-parser-js) Hijacked: What You Need to Know

Last Update: October 27, 2021 For approximately 4 hours on Friday, October 22, 2021, a widely utilized NPM package, ua-parser-js, was embedded with a malicious script intended to install a coinminer and harvest user/credential information. This package is used “to detect Browser, Engine, OS, CPU,...

Automated remediation level 2: Best practices

A low-impact workaround When it comes to automating remediation, the second level we’ll discuss takes a bit of additional planning. This is so that users will see little to no impact in the account fundamentals automation process. This framework aligns with the Center for Internet Security Amazon...

How to Address the Current Complexity and Chaos of Cloud IAM

Cloudy judgement Combining the separate themes of cloud technology and identity access management IAM might seem like an oxymoron in today’s endlessly scaling environments, but there’s really no going back in the box when it comes to the promise of cloud in driving innovation. The fact is, securi...

Securing Kubernetes Deployments From Runway to Takeoff

Kubernetes use is rising rapidly—according to a 2019 Cloud Native Computing Foundation CNCF survey, 78% of respondents say they use Kubernetes today 58% more respondents than the previous year. With numbers like those, it looks like everyone is headed toward the cloud. But as with any journey, yo...

[Security Nation] Marina Ciavatta and int eighty Put the Fun into Hacking With Hacking Esports and Dual Core Music

!\Security Nation\ Marina Ciavatta and int eighty Put the Fun into Hacking With Hacking Esports and Dual Core Musichttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/04/securitynationlogo-65.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we are joined by Marina Ciavatta and int eighty to talk about Hacking...

MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 1: Deep Observation of Real-Time Endpoint 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.” Assessing Managed Detection and Response MDR vendors is no easy task. However, evaluating each based on...

Principles for personal information security legislation

It goes without saying that the 117th US Congress has a lot to get done and many legitimate priorities are competing for finite legislative attention. Cybersecurity will be in this mix. In the wake of the SolarWinds attack, President-elect Biden issued a statement emphasizing that his...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of DNS-over-TLS

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...

What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q1 2025 in Review

At Rapid7, we started off the year focused on delivering new features and advancements across our products and services to bring you the context needed to prioritize exposures, visualize your attack surface, and accelerate incident response. Read on for Q1 2025 release highlights across the Comma...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

On Thursday, September 26, 2024, a security researcher publicly disclosed several vulnerabilities affecting different components of OpenPrinting’s CUPS Common Unix Printing System. CUPS is a popular IPP-based open-source printing system primarily but not only for Linux and UNIX-like operating...

Why Your AWS Cloud Container Needs Client-Side Security

With increasingly complicated network infrastructure and organizations needing to deploy applications across various environments, cloud containers are necessary for companies to stay agile and innovative. Containers are packages of software that hold all of the necessary components for an app to...

Old Blackmoon Trojan, NEW Monetization Approach

Rapid7 is tracking a new, more sophisticated and staged campaign using the Blackmoon trojan, which appears to have originated in November 2022. The campaign is actively targeting various businesses primarily in the USA and Canada. However, it is not used to steal credentials, instead, it implemen...

Fetch Payloads: A Shorter Path from Command Injection to Metasploit Session

Over the last year, two-thirds of the exploit modules added to Metasploit Framework have targeted command injection vulnerabilities CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code. In the process of helping new and existing open-source contributors learn how to use Metasploit’s command stager...

[Security Nation] Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygiene

!\Security Nation\ Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygienehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to renowned password security expert Jeremi Gosney about how we are all guilty of bad password...