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[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...
What's New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q4 2021 in Review
Greetings, fellow security professionals. As we enter into the new year, we wanted to provide a recap of product releases and features on the vulnerability management VM front for Q4 2021. Let's start by talking about the elephant in the room. The end of last year was dominated by Log4Shell, the...
Patch Tuesday - September 2024
Microsoft is addressing 79 vulnerabilities this September 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for four of the vulnerabilities published today; at time of writing, all four are listed on CISA KEV. Microsoft is also patching four critical...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Authenticated RCE This module is pretty exciting for us because it's for a vulnerability discovered by our very own Rapid7 researchers Jake Baines, Hernan Diaz, Andrew Iwamaye, and Dan Kelly. The vulnerability allowed for attackers to leverage the "custom script"...
CVE-2021-22652: Advantech iView Missing Authentication RCE (FIXED)
Advantech iView versions prior to 5.7.03.6112 suffer from an instance of "CWE-306: Missing Authentication For Critical Function." This vulnerability CVE-2021-22652 has a CVSSv3 score of 9.8, which is usually CRITICAL, since it effectively allows anyone who can connect to the iView server to run...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
New module content 4 Roundcube TimeZone Authenticated File Disclosure Authors: joel, stonepresto, and thomascube Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 18286 contributed by cudalac Path: auxiliary/gather/roundcubeauthfileread AttackerKB reference: CVE-2017-16651 Description: This PR adds a module to...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Authenticated command injection vulnerability of Cisco ASA-X with FirePOWER Services: jbaines-r7 added a new module that exploits an authenticated command injection vulnerability CVE-2022-20828 of Cisco ASA-X with FirePOWER Services. This vulnerability affects all Cisco ASA appliances that suppor...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Capture Credentials with our new SMB Server Our own Adam Galway revamped the old SMB capture module and now supports NTLMv1 and NTLMv2, as well as SMB1, SMB2 and SMB3. This was possible thanks to @zeroSteiner's new RubySMB server implementation. Metasploit is now able to capture NTLM hashes from...
What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q3 2023 in Review
A lot of new and exciting product updates this quarter to help customers continue driving better security outcomes. We are thrilled to launch a new vulnerability risk scoring strategy this quarter along with upgrades like improved UI for the Engine Pool page, more policy coverage, and more. Let’s...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
We just couldn't contain ourselves! This week we've got two Kubernetes modules coming at you from adfoster-r7 and smcintyre-r7. First up is an enum module auxiliary/cloud/kubernetes/enumkubernetes that'll extract a variety of information including the namespaces, pods, secrets, service token...
CVE-2024-0204: Critical Authentication Bypass in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT
On January 22, 2024, Fortra published a security advisory on CVE-2024-0204, a critical authentication bypass affecting its GoAnywhere MFT secure managed file transfer product prior to version 7.4.1. The vulnerability is remotely exploitable and allows an unauthorized user to create an admin user...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Fly High in the Sky With This New Cloud Exploit! This week, a new module was added that takes advantage of both authentication bypass and command injection in certain versions of Western Digital's MyCloud hardware. Submitted by community member Erik Wynter, this module gains access to the target,...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Cisco RV Series Auth Bypass and Command Injection Thanks to community contributor neterum, Metasploit framework just gained an awesome new module which targets Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers. The module actually exploits two vulnerabilities, an authentication bypass CVE-2022-20705 and a...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Operations shell Operations and management software make popular targets due to their users typically having elevated privileges across a network. Our own wvu contributed the VMware vRealize Operations vROps Manager SSRF RCE exploit module for the vulnerabilities discovered by security researcher...
Automated remediation level 3: Governance and hygiene
Mold it, make it, just don’t fake it At a quick glance, it seems like the title of this blog is “government hygiene.” Most likely, that wouldn’t be a particularly exciting read, but we’re hoping you might be engaged enough to gain a few takeaways from this fourth piece in our series on automating...
Patch Tuesday - May 2024
Microsoft is addressing 61 vulnerabilities this May 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for three of the vulnerabilities published today. At time of writing, two of the vulnerabilities patched today are listed on CISA KEV. Microsoft is...
CVE-2023-22374: F5 BIG-IP Format String Vulnerability
While following up our previous work on F5's BIG-IP devices, Rapid7 found an additional vulnerability in the appliance-mode REST interface; the vulnerability was assigned CVE-2023-22374. We reported it to F5 on December 6, 2022, and are now disclosing it in accordance with our vulnerability...
CVE-2021-3779: Ruby-MySQL Gem Client File Read (FIXED)
The ruby-mysql Ruby gem prior to version 2.10.0 maintained by Tomita Masahiro is vulnerable to an instance of CWE-610: Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere, wherein a malicious MySQL server can request local file content from a client without explicit authorization from...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Advantech iView NetworkServlet Command Injection This week Shelby Pace has developed a new exploit module for CVE-2022-2143. This module uses an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability to gain remote code execution against vulnerable versions of Advantech iView software below 5.7.04.6469...
Primary Arms PII Disclosure via IDOR (FIXED)
Update August 2, 2022: This issue was resolved by Primary Arms the same day Rapid7 published this report, and the IDOR vulnerability appears to be no longer exploitable. The Primary Arms website, a popular e-commerce site dealing in firearms and firearms-related merchandise, suffers from an...
InsightIDR’s Log Search: Recent Enhancements and Upcoming Investments
Log data is critical to ensuring that you have full visibility into what’s going on across your environment. Alongside endpoint and network data, log data enables teams to detect malicious activity, prove compliance, and have better visibility across their environment. Within InsightIDR, our Log...
Patch Tuesday - August 2024
Microsoft is addressing 88 vulnerabilities this August 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for ten of the vulnerabilities published today, which is significantly more than usual. At time of writing, all six of the known-exploited...
SaltStack Pre-Authenticated Remote Root (CVE-2020-16846 and CVE-2020-25592): What You Need to Know
What’s up? We start the November critical vulnerability season with a pair of CVEs—CVE-2020-16846 and CVE-2020-25592—that, when combined, can result in unauthenticated remote root access on a target system. SaltStack developers disclosed these weaknesses on Nov. 3, 2020 and have released patches...
CVE-2025-1094: PostgreSQL psql SQL injection (FIXED)
Rapid7 discovered a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability, CVE-2025-1094, affecting the PostgreSQL interactive tool psql. This discovery was made while Rapid7 was performing research into the recent exploitation of CVE-2024-12356 — an unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability th...
CVE-2023-20198: Active Exploitation of Cisco IOS XE Zero-Day Vulnerability
On Monday, October 16, Cisco’s Talos group published a blog on an active threat campaign exploiting CVE-2023-20198, a “previously unknown” zero-day vulnerability in the web UI component of Cisco IOS XE software. IOS XE is an operating system that runs on a wide range of Cisco networking devices,...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
2022 Vulnerability Intelligence Report Released Rapid7’s broader vulnerability research team released our 2022 Vulnerability Intelligence Report this week. The report includes Metasploit and research team data on exploitation, exploitability, and vulnerability profiles that are intended to help...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
SAMR Auxiliary Module A new SAMR auxiliary module has been added that allows users to add, lookup, and delete computer accounts from an AD domain. This should be useful for pentesters on engagements who need to create an AD account to gain an initial foothold into the domain for lateral movement...
SolarWinds Patches Four New Vulnerabilities in Their Orion Platform
On Thursday, March 25, 2021, SolarWinds released fixes for four new vulnerabilities in their Orion platform, the most severe of which is an authenticated remote code execution flaw due to a JSON deserialization weakness. Fixes for these weaknesses are in Orion Platform 2020.2.5. Given the...
Cisco Patches Recently Disclosed "sudo" Vulnerability (CVE-2021-3156) in Multiple Products
While Punxsutawney Phil may have said we only have six more weeks of winter, the need to patch software and hardware weaknesses will, unfortunately, never end. Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in most of their product portfolio, some of which may be exploited to gain...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Exploiting weak configurations Community contributor Graeme Robinson added two modules targeting insecurely configured API's, both of which lead to remote code execution. The first module exploits a lack of access control in Apache NiFi, which allows for the creation of an ExecuteProcess processo...
What’s New in InsightVM: Q3 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...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Have you built out that awesome media room? If your guilty pleasures include using a mobile device to make your home entertainment system WOW your guests, you might be using Unified Remote. I hope you are extra cautious about what devices you let on that WiFi network. A prolific community member...
What’s New in Rapid7 Products and Services: Q2 2026 in Review
If Q1 set the pace for Rapid7's tools, Q2 accelerated it. This quarter brought a steady stream of product enhancements, platform investments, and customer-driven innovation across Rapid7’s portfolio. Each release was designed with a clear goal in mind: helping security teams reduce complexity whi...
CVE-2022-28810: ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Authenticated Command Execution (Fixed)
On April 9, 2022, ManageEngine fixed CVE-2022-28810 with the release of ADSelfService Plus Build 6122. The vulnerability allowed the admin user to execute arbitrary operating system commands and potentially allowed partially authenticated Active Directory users to execute arbitrary operating syst...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
SuiteCRM Log File RCE First time Metasploit Framework contributor mcorybillington has added a new module for SuiteCRM versions 7.11.18 and below. This module takes advantage of the input validation being case sensitive, allowing for an authenticated user to rename the SuiteCRM log file to have an...
Rapid7 Releases the 2024 Attack Intelligence Report
Today, during our Take Command Summit, we released our 2024 Attack Intelligence Report, which pulls in expertise from our researchers, our detection and response teams, and threat intelligence teams. The result is the clearest picture yet of the expanding attack surface and the threats security...
Exploitation of Juniper Networks SRX Series and EX Series Devices
On August 17, 2023, Juniper Networks published an out-of-band advisory on four different CVEs affecting Junos OS on SRX and EX Series devices: CVE-2023-36846 Affects the SRX Series A Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series allows an...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
FortiNAC EITW Content Added Whilst we did have a few cool new modules added this week, one particularly interesting one was a Fortinet FortiNAC vulnerability, CVE-2022-39952, that was added in by team member Jack Heysel. This module exploits an unauthenticated RCE in Fortinet FortiNAC versions...
InsightVM Scanning: Demystifying SSH Credential Elevation
Written in collaboration with Jimmy Cancilla The credentials to log into the assets on the network are one of the most critical inputs that can be provided to a vulnerability assessment. In order to capture and report on the full risk of an asset, the scan engine must be able to access the asset ...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
NSClient++ Community contributor Yann Castel has contributed an exploit module for NSClient++ which targets an authenticated command execution vulnerability. Users that are able to authenticate to the service as admin can leverage the external scripts feature to execute commands with SYSTEM level...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Windows Server 2012 Fun Community contributor Erik Wynter added a local exploit module for a DLL hijacking vulnerability he discovered in Windows Server 2012. The TiWorker.exe process that runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM attempts to load SrClient.dll, which does not exist on the system. Because of...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Flask Cookies This week includes two modules related to Flask cookie signatures. One is specific to Apache Superset where session cookies can be resigned, allowing an attacker to elevate their privileges and dump the database connection strings. While adding this functionality, community member...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
Telemetry is for gathering data, not executing commands as root, right?... This week's highlight is a new exploit module by our own wvu for VMware vCenter Server CVE-2021-22005, a file upload vuln that arises from a flaw in vCenter’s analytics/telemetry service, which is enabled by default...
CVE-2024-24919: Check Point Security Gateway Information Disclosure
On May 28, 2024, Check Point published an advisory for CVE-2024-24919, a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting Check Point Security Gateway devices configured with either the “IPSec VPN” or “Mobile Access” software blade. On May 29, 2024, security firm mnemonic published a...
Critical CVEs in Outdated Versions of Atlassian Confluence and VMware vCenter Server
Rapid7 is highlighting two critical vulnerabilities in outdated versions of widely deployed software this week. Atlassian disclosed CVE-2023-22527, a template injection vulnerability in Confluence Server with a maxed-out CVSS score of 10, while VMware pushed a fresh update to its October 2023...
CVE-2022-22977: VMware Guest Authentication Service LPE (FIXED)
A low-privileged local attacker can prevent the VMware Guest Authentication service VGAuthService.exe from running in a guest Windows environment and can crash this service, thus rendering the guest unstable. In some very contrived circumstances, the attacker can leak file content to which they d...
CVE-2021-43287 Allows Pre-Authenticated Build Takeover of GoCD Pipelines
On October 26, 2021, open-source CI/CD solution GoCD released version 21.3.0, which included a fix for CVE-2021-43287, a critical information disclosure vulnerability whose exploitation allows unauthenticated attackers to leak configuration information, including build secrets and encryption keys...
CVE-2023-47218: QNAP QTS and QuTS Hero Unauthenticated Command Injection (FIXED)
Rapid7 has identified an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in the QNAP operating system known as QTS and QuTS hero. QTS is a core part of the firmware for numerous QNAP entry- and mid-level Network Attached Storage NAS devices, and QuTS hero is a core part of the firmware for numero...
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...
Metasploit Wrap-Up
GSoC Rocks! In a rare double whammy, one of our 2020 Google Summer of Code GSoC participants has authored a PR containing both enhancements & a new module! Improvements to our SQL injection library now allow PostgreSQL injection, and this new functionality has been verified with both a test modul...