CVE-2026-20182: Critical authentication bypass in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (FIXED)

Overview While researching a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, CVE-2026-20127, which was exploited in-the-wild, Rapid7 Labs discovered a new authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller formerly known as vSmart, CVE-2026-20182. This new authentication...

What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q3 2024 in Review

This was one of the most exciting quarters at Rapid7 as we announced the next chapter in our mission to give customers command of their attack surface: the Rapid7 Command Platform, our unified threat exposure and detection and response platform. With this, we introduced two exciting new products:...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Possible Web Service Removal Metasploit has support for running with a local database, or from a remote web service which can be initialized with msfdb init --component webservice. Future versions of Metasploit Framework may remove the msfdb remote webservice. Users that leverage this functionali...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Nothing but .NET? Smashery continues to… smash it by updating our .NET assembly execution module. The original module allowed users to run a .NET exe as a thread within a process they created on a remote host. Smashery’s improvements let users run the executable within a thread of the process...

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...

Rapid7 Releases New Industry Cyber-Exposure Report (ICER): Deutsche Börse Prime Standard

Today, Rapid7 released the fourth in our Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER series. For those of you who have been following our research over the past few years, you may immediately suspect us of unloading another 100+ page tome of internet-based findings around the internet—but not so fast!...

Automated remediation level 1: Lock down fundamentals

Non-calamitous conclusions When teams work in silos, they often can have different interpretations of the same data. There’s no way to leverage the real benefits of automated remediation if this is your reality. Ensuring visibility across teams is a critical component in a shared data set where...

Take the Full-Stack Approach to Securing Your Modern Attack Surface

A growing remote-work culture demands a graduation in the approach to security. It’s time to test, monitor, secure, and extend to the application layer. A modern methodology for vulnerability management VM is vital for organizations looking to minimize attack surfaces by prioritizing potential...

2021 Detection and Response Planning, Part 1: Rapid7’s Jeffrey Gardner Breaks Down How CISOs Should Approach Security Planning for the New Year

In this four-part series, we’ll explore key considerations and strategies for 2021 detection and response planning, and ways InsightIDR, Managed Detection and Response Services MDR, and InsightConnect can help drive increased efficiency and future-proof your SOC going into the new year. Despite a...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Making Metasploit faster This week's wrap-up includes many new modules, but notably, we've upgraded Metasploit loading. Thanks to bcoles, the bootup performance when searching for a module has been increased in 20166. Also, we've reduced Metasploit startup time - in 20155. New module content 6...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 12/06/2024

Post-Thanksgiving Big Release This week's release is an impressive one. It adds 9 new modules, which will get you remote code execution on products such as Ivanti Connect Secure, VMware vCenter Server, Asterisk, Fortinet FortiManager and Acronis Cyber Protect. It also includes an account takeover...

Zero-Day Exploitation Targeting Palo Alto Networks Firewall Management Interfaces

On Friday, November 8, 2024, cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks PAN published a bulletin PAN-SA-2024-0015 advising firewall customers to take steps to secure their firewall management interfaces amid unverified rumors of a possible new vulnerability. Rapid7 threat intelligence teams have also...

Fortinet FortiManager CVE-2024-47575 Exploited in Zero-Day Attacks

On Wednesday, October 23, 2024, security company Fortinet published an advisory on CVE-2024-47575, a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting their FortiManager network management solution. The vulnerability arises from a missing authentication for a critical function CWE-306 in the FortiManager...

Stories from the SOC Part 2: MSIX Installer Utilizes Telegram Bot to Execute IDAT Loader

Rapid7’s Managed Detection and Response MDR team continuously monitors our customers' environments, identifying emerging threats and developing new detections. In August 2023, Rapid7 identified a new malware loader named the IDAT Loader. Malware loaders are a type of malicious software designed t...

Year in Review: Rapid7 Cybersecurity Research

Welcome to 2023, a year that sounds so futuristic it is hard to believe it is real. But real it is, and make no mistake, threat actors are still out there, working hard to get into networks the world over. So, at the start of the new year, I am reminded of two particular phrases: Those who do not...

Evolving How We Share Rapid7 Research Data

In the spring of 2018, we launched the Open Data initiative to provide security teams and researchers with access to research data generated from Project Sonar and Project Heisenberg. Our goal for those projects is to understand how the attack surface is evolving, what exposures are most common o...

Easier URI Targeting With Metasploit Framework

Over the past year and a half, Metasploit Framework’s core engineering team in Belfast has made significant improvements to usability, discoverability, and the general quality of life for the global community of Framework users. A few of the enhancements we’ve worked on in MSF 6 include: A handy...

Rapid7 Statement on the New Standard Contractual Clauses for International Transfers of Personal Data

Context: On June 4, 2021, the European Commission published new standard contractual clauses “New SCCs". Under the General Data Protection Regulation “GDPR", transfers of personal data to countries outside of the European Economic Area EEA must meet certain conditions. The New SCCs are an approve...

Rapid7 + XDR: Security that Moves as Fast as Your Business

Since launching InsightIDR almost six years ago, our mission has remained constant: make it possible for any security team to achieve fast, sophisticated threat detection and response programs that scale with their business. Making threat detection and response as agile and simple as possible...

InsightVM Release Announcement: Global Dashboard Filters

InsightVM users have been able to create dashboards, add different visualizations in the form of cards and apply filters to these cards. Rapid7 also provided dashboard templates which enabled users to create views focusing on scenarios such as Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, identifying and assessing...

5 questions to answer before spending big on cloud security

Do your tool diligence Convincing people to sign off on big cloud security spends is, most assuredly, a never-ending process. Because every so often be it in 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, your security organization will have to pitch to the check-writers all over again. Of course, we all know it’s...

Rapid7's 2021 ICER Takeaways: High-Risk Services Among the Fortune 500

This blog post covers key takeaways from our 2021 Industry Cyber-Exposure Report ICER: Fortune 500. Original analysis for these findings was conducted by Tom Sellers. There are certain services that are generally considered to be high-risk when found available on the public internet. As an exampl...

Rapid7 Announces General Availability for Scoped Executive Summary Report in InsightVM

Security teams often struggle to demonstrate the efficacy and progress of their organization’s vulnerability and remediation management program. This is a result of the complexity around identifying, collecting, and visualizing complicated metrics. InsightVM’s Executive Summary Report has proved ...

What’s New in InsightAppSec and tCell: Q1 2021 in Review

2021 is off and running! The big question on the corporate world’s mind is, of course, “What will work life look like at the end of 2021?” With vaccines rolling out around the world, another shift is set to take place around when and where people put in their hours. As offices slowly start to...

Introducing Enhanced Endpoint Telemetry (EET) in InsightIDR

Rapid7 detection and response customers have access to, and insights from, our experts and research driving the industry forward. This includes a robust library of out-of-the box detections curated from our global managed SOC team, plus insights from Rapid7’s global threat intelligence network...

CVE-2026-0826: Critical unauthenticated stack buffer overflow in HP Poly VVX and Trio VoIP Phones (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against an HP Poly VVX 450 Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP phone. This research resulted in the discovery of a critical unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability, CVE-2026-0826. A remote attacker can leverage CVE-2026-08...

Rapid7 Fills Gaps in the CVE Assessment Process with AI-Generated Vulnerability Scoring in Exposure Command

NIST released an update highlighting that there would be delays in adding information on newly published CVEs this is also discussed in detail in our blog post from March of 2024. Due to resource constraints and an inability to keep up with the volume of newly-disclosed vulnerabilities, NVD shift...

2023 Ransomware Stats: A Look Back To Plan Ahead

Last year was not a year for the faint of heart. Organizations of every size found themselves faced with ransomware attacks at varying levels of sophistication, yet every one of them was damaging. And as we step into 2024, the first victims of ransomware attacks are already being reported. What c...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 1/05/2024

New module content 2 Splunk raw Server Info Disclosure Authors: KOF2002, h00die, and n00bhaxor Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 18635 contributed by n00bhaxor Path: gather/splunkrawserverinfo Description: This PR adds a module for an authenticated Splunk information disclosure vulnerability. This...

There’s One Last Gift Under the Tree, It’s Hands-On IoT!

It’s the holiday season and since we’re in a giving mood we thought we’d surprise our loyal readers with a fun, hands-on hardware exercise to enjoy during some well-earned downtime. But first, a little background. Every year Rapid7 has a pretty solid presence at DefCon in Las Vegas. This year was...

A December to Remember — Or, How We Improved InsightAppSec in Q4 in the Midst of Log4Shell

Ho, ho, holy cow — what a wild way to wrap up the year that was. Thousands of flights were cancelled during Christmas week, nearly every holiday party became a super-spreader event, and we lost a legend in Betty White. In our neck of the woods, Log4Shell has been dominating the conversation for...

Attack Surface Analysis Part 2: Penetration Testing

In this three-part series, we’ll explore key considerations and strategies for choosing an attack surface analysis strategy, and the ways it can be used to increase awareness of both technical and process-related risks. This is the second installment in our 2021 series around attack surface...

How the Biden Administration's cybersecurity order will affect companies

“It is the policy of my Administration that the prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents is a top priority and essential to national and economic security.” The Biden Administration recently issued Executive Order EO 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” to...

How to Implement Secure and Compliant IaC

Success lies in security True separation of developer and security teams is becoming a thing of the past. Today’s cloud environments enable deployments at previously unheard-of speed and scale; there simply isn’t time to build infrastructure, then code, then hand it all off for security...

The Evolution of DevOps in 2021

DevOps has long been a key tool in helping organizations reliably and rapidly deliver systems into production. While in the past, IT and software development teams suffered from lengthy processes and struggled to resolve incompatible priorities, now DevOps allows for easier collaboration, as well...

DivvyCloud Adds Support for IAM Analyzer Policy Recommendations

Last week, Amazon Web Services AWS announced an improvement to its IAM Access Analyzer that allows its users to proactively analyze and validate Identity & Access Management IAM policies against more than 100 checks and receive actionable recommendations on improving its security and efficacy. By...

Why More Teams are Shifting Security Analytics to the Cloud This Year

As the threat landscape continues to evolve in size and complexity, so does the security skills and resource gap, leaving organizations both understaffed and overwhelmed. An ESG study found that 63% of organizations say security is more difficult than it was two years ago. Teams cite the growing...

Talkin’ SMAC: Alert Labeling and Why It Matters

If you’ve ever worked in a Security Operations Center SOC, you know that it’s a special place. Among other things, the SOC is a massive data-labeling machine, and generates some of the most valuable data in the cybersecurity industry. Unfortunately, much of this valuable data is often rendered...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of etcd

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...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Keep your eyes peeled for another Metasploit CTF We hosted our third Annualish Metasploit CTF back in January of this year. All 1,000 slots were booked within days of announcing the competition. Because of the resounding success, we'll be hosting the fourth Annualish Metasploit CTF by year’s end...

Fewer False Alarms, Faster Reporting: InsightVM Introduces New One-Click Fix For False Positives

Let’s talk about false positives. They’re frustrating and faulty, but also about as certain as death and taxes for anyone working in IT security. The good news? We’ve added even more ways to reduce the noise they cause. According to Forrester Consulting’s 2019 study, customers have experienced a...

What’s New in InsightIDR: Q3 2020 in Review

In July, we provided a rundown of what was new in InsightIDR, our cloud-based SIEM tool, from the first half of 2020 check out the blog post here for a recap. We’ve released some pretty great features and updates since then, so we thought it was time for another recap! This post offers a closer...

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...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 12/20/2024

New module content 4 GameOverlay Privilege Escalation and Container Escape Authors: bwatters-r7, g1vi, gardnerapp, and h00die Type: Exploit Pull request: 19460 contributed by gardnerapp Path: linux/local/gameoverlayprivesc AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-2640 Description: Adds a module for...

Metasploit Wrap-Up: 11/08/2024

RISC-V Support This release of Metasploit Framework has added exciting new features such as new payloads that target the RISC-V architecture. These payloads allow for the execution of commands on compromised hardware, allowing Metasploit Framework and Metasploit Payloads to be used in more...

The Dreaded Network Pivot: An Attack Intelligence Story

Rapid7 recently released our 2024 Attack Intelligence Report, a 14-month deep dive into the vulnerability and attacker landscape. The spiritual successor to our annual Vulnerability Intelligence Report, the AIR includes data from the Rapid7 research team combined with our detection and response a...

What’s New in Rapid7 Products & Services: Q1 2024 in Review

We kicked off 2024 with a continued focus on bringing security professionals which if you're reading this blog, is likely you! the tools and functionality needed to anticipate risks, pinpoint threats, and respond faster with confidence. Below we’ve highlighted some key releases and updates from...

The Updated APT Playbook: Tales from the Kimsuky threat actor group

Co-authors are Christiaan Beek and Raj Samani Within Rapid7 Labs we continually track and monitor threat groups. This is one of our key areas of focus as we work to ensure that our ability to protect customers remains constant. As part of this process, we routinely identify evolving tactics from...

Rapid7 Observes Use of Microsoft OneNote to Spread Redline Infostealer Malware

Author: Thomas Elkins Contributors: Matt Green, James Dunne, and Hernan Diaz Rapid7 routinely conducts research into the wide range of techniques that threat actors use to conduct malicious activity. One objective of this research is to discover new techniques being used in the wild, so we can...