Metasploit Wrap-Up

The Metasploit team is rolling to the end of the year featuring a week of modules, updates, and our annual CTF. I say rolling in part because here in the US, we’re coming off our week of Thanksgiving, which involves lots of pies, and we’re probably all a bit more spherical than normal! For those ...

What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q3 2022 in Review

Another quarter comes to a close! While we definitely had our share of summer fun, our team continued to invest in the product, releasing features and updates like recurring coverage for enterprise technologies, performance enhancements, and more. Let’s take a look at some of the key releases in...

Patch Tuesday - June 2022

June's Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft releasing fixes for over 60 CVEs. Top of mind for many administrators this month is CVE-2022-30190, also known as Follina, which was observed being exploited in the wild at the end of May. Microsoft provided mitigation instructions disabling the MSDT URL protoc...

VMware ESXi CVE-2024-37085 Targeted in Ransomware Campaigns

On Monday, July 29, Microsoft published an extensive threat intelligence blog on observed exploitation of CVE-2024-37085, an Active Directory integration authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Broadcom VMware ESXi hypervisors. The vulnerability, according to Redmond, was identified in...

Patch Tuesday - November 2022

It’s a relatively light Patch Tuesday this month by the numbers – Microsoft has only published 67 new CVEs, most of which affect their flagship Windows operating system. However, four of these are zero-days, having been observed as exploited in the wild. The big news is that two older zero-day CV...

Update on Log4Shell’s Impact on Rapid7 Solutions and Systems

Like the rest of the security community, we have been internally responding to the critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache’s Log4j Java library a.k.a. Log4Shell. We have been continuously monitoring for Log4Shell exploit attempts in our environment and have been urgently...

Patch Tuesday - August 2023

Microsoft is addressing 86 vulnerabilities this August Patch Tuesday, including one zero-day vulnerability, as well as five critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities, and 12 browser vulnerabilities. An unpatched zero-day malicious document vulnerability from July also receives Windows OS...

A Quick Look Into Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

The cloud security solutions market is growing rapidly, and there are many types of solutions to support your specific business needs. But figuring out the right tool—let alone the right type of tool—can be difficult. Gartner has five security archetypes that fall under the broader cloud security...

Patch Tuesday - October 2023

Microsoft is addressing 105 vulnerabilities this October Patch Tuesday, including three zero-day vulnerabilities, as well as 12 critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities, and one republished third-party vulnerability. WordPad: zero-day NTLM hash disclosure Another Patch Tuesday, another...

Opportunistic Exploitation of Zoho ManageEngine and Sitecore CVEs

Over the weekend of November 6, 2021, Rapid7’s Incident Response IR and Managed Detection and Response MDR teams began seeing opportunistic exploitation of two unrelated CVEs: CVE-2021-40539, a REST API authentication bypass in Zoho’s ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus product that Rapid7 has...

Patch Tuesday - July 2021

Microsoft has patched another 117 CVEs, returning to volumes seen in early 2021 and most of 2020. It would appear that the recent trend of approximately 50 vulnerability fixes per month was not indicative of a slowing pace. This month there were 13 vulnerabilities rated Critical with nearly the...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Dump Windows secrets from Active Directory This week, our very own Christophe De La Fuente added an important update to the existing Windows Secret Dump module. It is now able to dump secrets from Active Directory, which will be very useful for Metasploit users. This new feature uses the Director...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Getting Looney with Privilege Escalation As if Metasploit couldn’t get any loonier, this release adds a brand new exploit module for Glibc Tunables Privilege Escalation aka Looney Tunables. Now, using linux/local/glibctunablesprivesc, you can check your target’s glibc version to see if it’s...

Critical Zero-Day Vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway

On Tuesday, July 18, Citrix published a security bulletin warning users of three new vulnerabilities affecting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Of the three vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-3519 is the most severe—successful exploitation allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code remotely on...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Cisco ‘Sploits This week’s Metasploit Framework release brings two modules that target Cisco products.The first module, written by our very own jheysel-r7, targets an unauthenticated file upload vulnerability in Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform. Vulnerable versions of the Cisco HyperFlex software...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

It’s 11 o’clock. Do you know where your file uploads are? Repeat contributor Erik Wynter and our own wvu-r7 each submitted modules exploiting web applications which allow attackers to upload files to arbitrary locations, including where the web application would interpret them as code! The first...

Patch Tuesday - May 2022

This month is par for the course in terms of both number and severity of vulnerabilities being patched by Microsoft. That means there’s plenty of work to be done by system and network administrators, as usual. There is one 0-day this month: CVE-2022-26925, a Spoofing vulnerability in the Windows...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Login brute-force utility Jan Rude added a new module that gives users the ability to brute-force login for Linux Syncovery. This expands Framework's capability to scan logins to Syncovery, a popular web GUI for backups. WordPress extension SQL injection module Cydave, destr4ct, and jheysel-r7...

Update on SolarWinds Supply-Chain Attack: SUNSPOT and New Malware Family Associations

This update is a continuation of our previous coverage of the SolarWinds supply-chain attack that was discovered by FireEye in December 2020. As of Jan. 11, 2021, new research has been published that expands the security community’s understanding of the breadth and depth of the SolarWinds attack...

Introducing Active Risk

Cyber risk is increasing both in volume and velocity. Given the landscape of threats, weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations, organizations, teams and vulnerability analysts alike need of better prioritization mechanisms. That's why we developed a new risk scoring methodology: Active...

Patch Tuesday - December 2022

As far as Patch Tuesdays go, defenders have a relatively light month to close out the year with only 48 CVEs being published by Microsoft today. This does not include the 24 previously disclosed vulnerabilities affecting their Chromium-based Edge browser. There are two zero-days in the mix today...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of Citrix ADC/NetScaler

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...

Define What to Parse From Logs with the Custom Parsing Tool in InsightIDR

Data is essential to any SIEM. Generally, this data is collected from logs, endpoints, and networks. All of this data paints a holistic picture of your network so you have constant visibility into what’s going on, and where. When it comes to security data, log data is the primary driver. In...

SolarWinds Serv-U FTP and Managed File Transfer CVE-2021-35211: What You Need to Know

On July 12, 2021, SolarWinds confirmed an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2021-35211, in the Serv-U FTP and Managed File Transfer component of SolarWinds15.2.3 HF1 released May 5, 2021 and all prior versions. Successful exploitation of CVE-2021-35211 could enable an attacker to gai...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Clone your way to code execution We’ve had a busy week bringing you exploits, features, enhancements, and fixes. Exploit modules for Git and El Finder lead the pack this week with an information disclosure against Jira and a post exploitation module targeting Geutebruck white-labelled cameras to...

Patch Tuesday - November 2023

Microsoft is addressing 64 vulnerabilities this November Patch Tuesday, including five zero-day vulnerabilities as well as one critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability. Overall, this month sees significantly fewer vulnerabilities addressed across a smaller number of products than has been...

CVE-2021-39144: VMware Cloud Foundation Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

On October 25, 2022, VMware published VMSA-2022-0027 on two vulnerabilities in its Cloud Foundation NSX-V solution. By far the more severe of these is CVE-2021-39144, an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability with a CVSSv3 score of 9.8. The vulnerability arises from a deserialization...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Log4Shell - Log4j HTTP Scanner Versions of Apache Log4j impacted by CVE-2021-44228 which allow JNDI features used in configuration, log messages, and parameters, do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints. This module will scan an HTTP endpoint for the...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Image Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Logs.jpg without change while j==shell; Log4j; The Log4j loop continues as we release a module targeting vulnerable vCenter releases. This is a good time to suggest that you check your vCenter releases and maybe even increase the...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Stopped at the gate? A fun new module from timwr, taking advantage of a technique reported by Cedric Owens, is reminding everyone if there is no fence a gate will not deter us. The new module provides a quick wrapper for payloads that bypasses download origination and authorization requirements...

Patch Tuesday - July 2023

Microsoft is addressing 130 vulnerabilities this July Patch Tuesday, including five zero-day vulnerabilities, and eight further critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities. Overall, it’s safe to say that this is a busier Patch Tuesday than the past couple of months. Note that the total cou...

Opportunistic Exploitation of WSO2 CVE-2022-29464

On April 18, 2022, MITRE published CVE-2022-29464 , an unrestricted file upload vulnerability affecting various WSO2 products. WSO2 followed with a security advisory explaining the vulnerability allowed unauthenticated and remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the following products: API...

Log4Shell 2 Months Later: Security Strategies for the Internet's New Normal

CVE-2021-44228 rules everything around us — or so it seemed, at least, for those breathless days in December 2021 when the full scope of Log4Shell was starting to take hold and security teams were strapped for time and resources as they scoured their organizations' environments for vulnerable...

Critical Fortinet FortiOS CVE-2024-21762 Exploited

On February 8, 2024 Fortinet disclosed multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting FortiOS, the operating system that runs on Fortigate SSL VPNs. The critical vulnerabilities include CVE-2024-21762, an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in SSLVPNd that could allow remote unauthenticated attackers ...

Patch Tuesday - February 2023

It’s Patch Tuesday again. Microsoft is addressing fewer individual vulnerabilities this month than last, but there’s still plenty to keep admins and defenders occupied. Three zero-day vulnerabilities are vying for your attention today: a lone Microsoft Publisher vulnerability as well as a couple...

InsightVM Scan Diagnostics: Troubleshooting Credential Issues for Authenticated Scanning

Have you ever tried to figure out why a vulnerability or policy scan isn’t showing you the results you expect, even though you’ve provided credentials? If so, you’ll be pleased to hear that the November 3rd release of Nexpose and InsightVM version 6.6.112 will introduce a new check category...

CVE-2026-52806: Authenticated RCE via Argument Injection in Gogs (FIXED as of June 7, 2026)

Overview Rapid7 Labs discovered a critical argument injection CWE-88 vulnerability in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, tracked as CVE-2026-52806. The vulnerability, scored as CVSSv3.1 9.9 Critical, allows any authenticated user to achieve remote code execution RCE on the serve...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Spilling the Gitea We have two modules coming in from cdelafuente-r7 targeting CVE-2020-14144 for both the Gitea and Gogs self-hosted Git services. Both modules are similar: they take advantage of a user’s ability to create Git hooks by authenticating with the web interface, creating a dummy...

Patch Tuesday - March 2024

Microsoft is addressing 60 vulnerabilities this March 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft indicated that they aren’t aware of prior public disclosure or exploitation in the wild for any of the vulnerabilities patched today, which means no new additions to CISA KEV at time of writing. Microsoft is...

3 Steps to Integrate Rapid7 Products Into the DevSecOps Cycle

DevSecOps is the concept and practice of integrating security into the DevOps cycle. The idea is to bring the different phases of security into the DevOps model and try to automate the entire process, so security is integrated directly into the initial application builds. In this post, we’ll take...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Dell DBUtil23.sys IOCTL memmove privilege escalation Our very own zeroSteiner added a new module, which exploits insufficient access control in Dell's dbutil23.sys firmware update driver included in the Dell Bios Utility that comes pre-installed with most Windows machines. The driver accepts...

How to Create an OS-Based Policy Scanning Workflow in InsightVM

When you first start setting up InsightVM, the No. 1 thing you should be focused on is building sites, running scans, and kicking off reports to start building your vulnerability management program. Once you start feeling comfortable with the vulnerability management flow, policy scanning should ...

Rapid7 Named a Visionary in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing

Rapid7 is excited to share that we have been recognized as a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing AST We are so excited to share the news that Rapid7 has been recognized as a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing.Thi...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

GitLab RCE New Rapid7 team member jbaines-r7 wrote an exploit targeting GitLab via the ExifTool command. Exploiting this vulnerability results in unauthenticated remote code execution as the git user. What makes this module extra neat is the fact that it chains two vulnerabilities together to...

Patch Tuesday - April 2021

Patch Tuesday is here again and there are more Exchange updates to apply! A total of 114 vulnerabilities were fixed this month with more than half of them affecting all versions of Windows, with about half of them being remote code execution bugs, and about a fifth of them being rated as critical...

CVE-2020-7387..7390: Multiple Sage X3 Vulnerabilities

Four vulnerabilities involving Sage X3 were identified by Rapid7 researchers Jonathan Peterson, Aaron Herndon, Cale Black, Ryan Villarreal, and William Vu. These vulnerabilities were reported to Sage according to Rapid7's usual vulnerability disclosure process and were fixed in recent releases fo...

Fortinet FortiWeb OS Command Injection

An OS command injection vulnerability in FortiWeb's management interface version 6.3.11 and prior can allow a remote, authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, via the SAML server configuration page. This is an instance of CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Baron Samedit is coming to get you Last week, a critical bug in sudo came out and could potentially affect most of the Linux-based operating systems, since this tool is usually installed by default. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2021-3156, but better known as "Baron Samedit", and is...

Suspected Exploitation of Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2023-46604

Tom Elkins, John Fenninger, Evan McCann, Matthew Smith, and Micah Young contributed attacker behavior insights to this blog. Beginning Friday, October 27, Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response MDR identified suspected exploitation of Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2023-46604 in two different customer...

Patch Tuesday - December 2021

This month’s Patch Tuesday comes in the middle of a global effort to mitigate Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228. In today’s security release, Microsoft issued fixes for 83 vulnerabilities across an array of products — including a fix for Windows Defender for IoT, which is vulnerable to CVE-2021-44228...