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...

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...

MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 10: Included Security Orchestration and Automation

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.” Cybersecurity teams continue to be challenged by resource constraints and disconnected toolsets. One method of...

Patch Tuesday - October 2021

Today’s Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft issuing fixes for over 70 CVEs, affecting the usual mix of their product lines. From Windows, Edge, and Office, to Exchange, SharePoint, and Dynamics, there is plenty of patching to do for workstation and server administrators alike. One vulnerability has...

Patch Tuesday - September 2021

Microsoft has fixed a total of 60 vulnerabilities this month, including two publicly disclosed 0-days. Fortunately there are only a few issues rated critical this month with the vast majority of the remainder being rated important. Here’s three big things you can go patch right now. MSHTML Remote...

HP Device Manager Cavalcade of Critical CVEs (CVE-2020-6925:6927): What You Need to Know

HP released a security bulletin on Sept. 25, 2020, disclosing a set of vulnerabilities in HP Device Manager that—when some are chained together—can result in a remote attacker gaining SYSTEM privileges on the target node. Note: A backdoor database user exists in the PostgreSQL database used by HP...

Patch Tuesday - June 2021

It is another low volume Patch Tuesday this month as Microsoft releases fixes for 50 vulnerabilities. This should not diminish the importance of speedily applying the updates. 6 of the vulnerabilities being patched this month are 0-days under active exploitation CVE-2021-31955, CVE-2021-31956,...

CVE-2022-41622 and CVE-2022-41800 (FIXED): F5 BIG-IP and iControl REST Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Rapid7 discovered several vulnerabilities and exposures in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices running a customized distribution of CentOS detailed in F5's Base Operating Systems support article. The affected products are detailed in the vendor advisories below: CVE-2022-41622: BIG-IP and BIG-IQ are...

Patch Tuesday - May 2023

A less crowded Patch Tuesday for May 2023: Microsoft is offering fixes for just 49 vulnerabilities this month. There are no fixes this month for printer drivers, DNS, or .NET, three components which have featured heavily in recent months. Three zero-day vulnerabilities are patched, alongside a...

Patch Tuesday - July 2022

Microsoft’s updates for July's Patch Tuesday fix 86 CVEs, including two vulnerabilities in their Chromium-based Edge browser that were patched earlier in the month. One 0-day vulnerability has been patched: CVE-2022-22047 affects all currently supported versions of Microsoft’s pervasive operating...

3 Reasons to Join Rapid7’s Cloud Security Summit

The world of the cloud never stops moving — so neither can cloud security. In the face of rapidly evolving technology and a constantly changing threat landscape, keeping up with all the latest developments, trends, and best practices in this emerging practice is more vital than ever. Enter Rapid7...

Patch Tuesday - February 2022

Today’s fixes from Microsoft are relatively light as far as Patch Tuesdays go. This is the first month in possibly forever where no vulnerabilities are considered Critical. A total of 70 CVEs were fixed today including 22 that affect the Chromium browser engine, which is used by Edge. Although 16...

CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199: JetBrains TeamCity Multiple Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

Overview In February 2024, Rapid7’s vulnerability research team identified two new vulnerabilities affecting JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD server: CVE-2024-27198 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web component of TeamCity that arises from an alternative path issue CWE-288 and has a CVSS...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Taking a stroll down memory lane Tomcat Init Script Privilege Escalation Do you remember the issue with Tomcat init script that was originally discovered by Dawid Golunski back in 2016 that led to privilege escalation? This week's Metasploit release includes an exploit module for CVE-2016-1240 by...

5 Security Projects That Are Giving Back

Editor’s note: We had planned to publish our Hacky Holidays blog series throughout December 2021 – but then Log4Shell happened, and we dropped everything to focus on this major vulnerability that impacted the entire cybersecurity community worldwide. Now that it’s 2022, we’re feeling in need of...

Patch Tuesday - April 2024

Microsoft is addressing 149 vulnerabilities this April 2024 Patch Tuesday, which is significantly more than usual. For the second month in a row, Microsoft indicated that they weren't aware of prior public disclosure or exploitation in the wild for any of the vulnerabilities patched today. Howeve...

Metasploit 2023 Annual Wrap-Up: Dec. 29, 2023

As 2023 winds down, we’re taking another look back at all the changes and improvements to the Metasploit Framework. This year marked the 20th anniversary since Metasploit version 1.0 was committed and the project is still actively maintained and improved thanks to a thriving community. Version 6....

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

F5 Big-IP This week’s Metasploit release contains 2 new modules released as part of the Rapid7 F5 BIG-IP and iControl REST Vulnerabilities research article. These discoveries were made by our very own Ron Bowes, who developed an exploit module for authenticated RCE against F5 devices running in...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/26/24

Rancher Modules This week, Metasploit community member h00die added the second of two modules targeting Rancher instances. These modules each leak sensitive information from vulnerable instances of the application which is intended to manage Kubernetes clusters. These are a great addition to...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/16/2026

Persistence, dMSA Abuse & RCE Goodies This week, we have received a lot of contributions from the community, such as h00die, Chocapikk and countless others, which is greatly appreciated. This week’s modules and improvements in Metasploit Framework range from new modules, such as dMSA Abuse...

CVE-2023-35078: Critical API Access Vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile

CVE-2023-35078 is a remote unauthenticated API access vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile, which was previously branded as MobileIron Core. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3 base score of 10.0 and has a severity rating of Critical. Ivanti has reported that they have received information...

Patch Tuesday - January 2023

Microsoft is starting the new year with a bang! Today’s Patch Tuesday release addresses almost 100 CVEs. After a relatively mild holiday season, defenders and admins now have a wide range of exciting new vulnerabilities to consider. Two zero-day vulnerabilities emerged today, both affecting a wid...

Action! Start putting automation into practice.

Augmented reality No, not that augmented reality. In our new blog series, we’ll talk about the challenges of leveraging automation and actually putting it into practice for your organization and business. We’ll discuss how it can augment a security organization’s workflow in so many ways when don...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Throw another log file on the fire Our own Stephen Fewer authored a module targeting CVE-2023-26360 affecting ColdFusion 2021 Update 5 and earlier as well as ColdFusion 2018 Update 15 and earlier. The vulnerability allows multiple paths to code execution, but our module works by leveraging a...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Sprinkle on the Modules The first quarter of 2021 has given us wave after wave of Exchange vulnerabilities, and while our awesome contributors helped us continue coverage with another Exchange module we were able to add to Metasploit, we also added modules covering very heavy-hitting...

CVE-2021-4191: GitLab GraphQL API User Enumeration (FIXED)

On February 25, 2022, GitLab published a fix for CVE-2021-4191, which is an instance of CWE-359, "Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor." The now-patched vulnerability affected GitLab versions since 13.0. The vulnerability is the result of a missing authentication chec...

SOC Automation with InsightIDR and InsightConnect: Three Key Use Cases to Explore to Optimize Your Security Operations

You probably already know that SOC automation with InsightIDR and InsightConnect can decrease your MeanTimeToResponse. It may not be a surprise that automating your security operations will augment your team’s skills and expertise to detect and respond to threats with super speed. You can even...

What’s New in InsightIDR: Q4 2020 in Review

Throughout the year, we’ve provided roundups of what’s new in InsightIDR, our cloud-based SIEM tool see the H1 recap post, and our most recent Q3 2020 recap post. As we near the end of 2020, we wanted to offer a closer look at some of the recent updates and releases in InsightIDR from Q4 2020...

Rapid7’s InsightIDR Introduces Integration with Cybereason

Ransomware is the fastest-growing type of cybercrime, and according to Cybersecurity Ventures, global ransomware damage costs will reach $20 billion by 2021—that’s 57 times more than it was just five years ago. With the increase in remote work this year expanding the attack surface, the threat of...

This One Time on a Pen Test: Doing Well With XML

Each year, Rapid7 penetration testers complete hundreds of internally and externally based penetration testing service engagements. This post is part of an ongoing series featuring testimonials of what goes on beneath the hoodie. For more insights, check out our 2020 Under the Hoodie report. Most...

Ransomware Groups Demystified: Lynx Ransomware

As part of our research and tracking of threats, Rapid7 Labs is actively monitoring new and upcoming threat groups and the ransomware domain is known for having a large number of them. In the Ransomware Radar Report, Rapid7 Labs shared the observation that in the first half of 2024, 21 new or...

Patch Tuesday - June 2023

It’s June, and it’s Patch Tuesday. The volume of fixes this month is typical compared with recent history: 94 in total including Edge-on-Chromium. For the first time in a while, Microsoft isn’t offering patches for any zero-day vulnerabilities, but we do get fixes for four critical Remote Code...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of Redis

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 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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/16/2024

New module content 3 Apache HugeGraph Gremlin RCE Authors: 6right and jheysel-r7 Type: Exploit Pull request: 19348 contributed by jheysel-r7 Path: linux/http/apachehugegraphgremlinrce AttackerKB reference: CVE-2024-27348 Description: Adds an Apache HugeGraph Server exploit for GHSA-29rc-vq7f-x335...

Patch Tuesday - April 2022

From Defender to Windows, Office to Azure, this month’s Patch Tuesday has a large swath of Microsoft’s portfolio getting vulnerabilities fixed. 119 CVEs were addressed today, not including the 26 Chromium vulnerabilities that were fixed in the Edge browser. One of these has been observed being...

Rapid7’s Response to Codecov Incident

Cybersecurity is Rapid7’s top priority, and when there is an incident that may pose a risk to our customers, we are transparent about it. We also believe that providing this level of transparency ultimately helps the security community better address potential pending threats and safeguard...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

TeamCity authentication bypass and remote code execution This week’s Metasploit release includes a new module for a critical authentication bypass in JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD Server. All versions of TeamCity prior to version 2023.05.4 are vulnerable to this issue. The vulnerability was originally...

Cloud Pentesting, Pt. 1: Breaking Down the Basics

The concept of cloud computing has been around for awhile, but it seems like as of late — at least in the penetration testing field — more and more customers are looking to get a pentest done in their cloud deployment. What does that mean? How does that look? What can be tested, and what’s out of...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Self-Service Remote Code Execution This week, our own @wvu-r7 added an exploit module that achieves unauthenticated remote code execution in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, a self-service password management and single sign-on solution for Active Directory. This new module leverages a REST API...

Accelerating SecOps and Emergent Threat Response with the Insight Platform

When we talk to customers about the Insight Platform and how to best support their evolving needs, they're often not asking for another product, but rather a capability that enhances a current experience. Our customers have the core ingredients of a robust security program, but as their attack...

How to Keep Up With Vulnerability Management Challenges in Ephemeral Cloud Environments

This blog is part of an ongoing series sharing key takeaways from Rapid7’s 2020 Cloud Security Executive Summit. Interested in participating in the next summit on March 9? Register here! The modern perspective is that the cloud has made it much easier to have visibility of your attack surface and...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of MySQL

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...

Patch Tuesday - October 2024

Microsoft is addressing 118 vulnerabilities this October 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for five of the vulnerabilities published today, although it does not rate any of these as critical yet. Of those five, Microsoft lists two as...

Metasploit Wrap Up 05/22/2026

Another week, another authentication bypass Our humble Metasploit weeklyish blog has been blessed with a new network component vulnerability. The dynamic duo of @sfewer-r7 and @jburgess-r7 have discovered and authored the admin/networking/ciscosdwanvhubauthbypass module for CVE-2026-20182, a...

CVE-2022-42475: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in FortiOS; Exploitation Reported

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. On December 12, 2022, FortiGuard Labs published advisory FG-IR-22-398 regarding a critical CVSSv3 9.3 “heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability CWE-122 in FortiOS SSL-VPN which may all...

[Security Nation] James Kettle of PortSwigger on Advancing Web-Attack Research

!\Security Nation\ James Kettle of PortSwigger on Advancing Web-Attack Researchhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to James Kettle of PortSwigger. Their discussion includes research for new web-attack technique...

Akkadian Provisioning Manager Multiple Vulnerabilities Disclosure (Fixed)

Over the course of routine security research, Rapid7 researchers discovered that the Akkadian Provisioning Manager version 4.50.18, a provisioning solution for a Cisco Unified Communications environment, has a trio of vulnerabilities, which, when combined, can lead to remote code execution on the...