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New module content 3 LDAP Login Scanner Author: Dean Welch Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 18197 contributed by dwelch-r7 Path: scanner/ldap/ldaplogin Description: This PR adds a new login scanner module for LDAP. Login scanners are the classes that provide functionality for testing authentication...

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Cloud Fun With EC2 New ground was broken today with the addition of two PRs from community contributor sempervictus, also known as RageLtMan, who added the ability for Metasploit to establish sessions to EC2 instances using Amazon's SSM interface, which provides a public API to execute commands o...

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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...

CVE-2021-3546[78]: Akkadian Console Server Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

!CVE-2021-3546\78: Akkadian Console Server Vulnerabilities \FIXED\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/09/akkadian-vuln.jpg Over the course of routine security research, Rapid7 researchers Jonathan Peterson, Cale Black, William Vu, and Adam Cammack discovered that the Akkadian Console ofte...

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LearnPress authenticated SQL injection Metasploit contributor h00die added a new module that exploits CVE-2020-6010, an authenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the WordPress LearnPress plugin. When a user is logged in with contributor privileges or higher, the id parameter can be used to...

Rapid7 Announces Kubernetes Integration General Availability in InsightVM

Rapid7 is excited to announce the general availability of our Kubernetes integration in InsightVM, our vulnerability management tool.This represents a step forward in Rapid7’s ability to provide vulnerability and remediation management capabilities for container environments. Kubernetes is the mo...

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...

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...

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Windows 11 ADF WinSock Priv Esc The new windows/local/cve202321768afdlpe exploit makes use of a brand new Windows kernel exploitation technique that leverages the new I/O ring feature introduced in Windows 11 21H2. This technique comes from Yarden Shafir research and provides a full read/write...

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Azure Active Directory login scanner module Community contributor k0pak4 added a new login scanner module for Azure Active Directory. This module exploits a vulnerable authentication endpoint in order to enumerate usernames without generating log events. The error code returned by the endpoint ca...

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...

Patch Tuesday - November 2024

Microsoft is addressing 90 vulnerabilities this November 2024 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft has evidence of in-the-wild exploitation and/or public disclosure for four of the vulnerabilities published today, although as with last month’s batch, it does not evaluate any of these zero-day vulnerabilities...

How To Hunt For UEFI Malware Using Velociraptor

UEFI threats have historically been limited in number and mostly implemented by nation state actors as stealthy persistence. However, the recent proliferation of Black Lotus on the dark web, Trickbot enumeration module late 2022, and Glupteba November 2023 indicates that this historical trend may...

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MOVEit It has been a busy few weeks in the security space; the MOVEit vulnerability filling our news feeds with dancing lemurs and a Barracuda vulnerability that has us all wondering how many shredders out there can handle a 1U appliance. Despite those very worthwhile distractions, Metasploit has...

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Chaining for the win 1: Pentaho Business Server This week, our very own jheysel-r7 added an exploit module that leverages two vulnerabilities in Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server prior to versions 9.4.0.1 and 9.3.0.2, including 8.3.x. The module chains an authentication bypass...

CVE-2022-27518: Critical Fix Released for Exploited Citrix ADC, Gateway Vulnerability

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, Citrix published Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway Security Bulletin for CVE-2022-27518 announcing fixes for a critical unauthenticated remote code execution...

CVE-2021-20038..42: SonicWall SMA 100 Multiple Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

Over the course of routine security research, Rapid7 researcher Jake Baines discovered and reported five vulnerabilities involving the SonicWall Secure Mobile Access SMA 100 series of devices, which includes SMA 200, 210, 400, 410, and 500v. The most serious of these issues can lead to...

Grow, Develop, and Impact More Than Just Your Career: Software Engineering at Rapid7 Belfast

Growth and learning – in any career at any level – are imperative for job satisfaction and company commitment. While it is necessary to have inherent curiosity as well as a desire to grow and achieve, it is also important to work for an organization that encourages and enables this curiosity and...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/19/24

Welcome Ryan and the new CrushFTP module It's not every week we add an awesome new exploit module to the Framework while adding the original discoverer of the vulnerability to the Rapid7 team as well. We're very excited to welcome Ryan Emmons to the Emergent Threat Response team, which works...

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PTT for DCSync This week, community member smashery made an improvement to the windowssecretsdump module to enable it to dump domain hashes using the DCSync method after having authenticated with a Kerberos ticket. Now, if a user has a valid Kerberos ticket for a privileged account, they can run...

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That Privilege Escalation Escalated Quickly This release features a module leveraging CVE-2023-22515, a vulnerability in Atlassian’s on-premises Confluence Server first listed as a privilege escalation, but quickly recategorized as a “broken access control” with a CVSS score of 10. The exploit...

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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...

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Meterpreter Testing This week’s release adds new payload tests to our automated test suite. This is intended to help the team and community members identify issues and behavior discrepancies before changes are made. Payloads run on a variety of different platforms including Windows, Linux, and OS...

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Ask and you may receive Module suggestions for the win, this week we see a new module written by jheysel-r7 based on CVE-2022-26352 that happens to have been suggested by jvoisin in the issue queue last month. This module targets an arbitrary file upload in dotCMS versions before 22.03, 5.3.8.10,...

Apple Silicon Support on Insight Agent

We are pleased to announce the general availability of native support of Apple Silicon chips for the Rapid7 Insight Agent! The Insight Agent has been fully validated and tested to run on the new Apple Silicon systems natively, and does not require Rosetta 2 to install or operate. This ensures...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 09/27/2024

Epic Release! This week's release includes 5 new modules, 6 enhancements, 4 fixes and 1 documentation update. Among the new additions, we have an account take over, SQL injection, RCE, and LPE! Thank you to all the contributors who made it possible! New Module Content 5 Cisco Smart Software Manag...

Active Exploitation of Multiple Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerabilities

Rapid7 managed services teams have observed exploitation of Adobe ColdFusion in multiple customer environments. The attacks our team has responded to thus far appear to be chaining CVE-2023-29298, a Rapid7-discovered access control bypass in ColdFusion that was disclosed on July 11, with an...

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Metasploit T-Shirt Design Contest In honor of Metasploit's 20th anniversary, Rapid7 is launching special edition t-shirts - and we're inviting members of our community to have a hand in its creation. The contest winner will have their design featured on the shirts, which will then be available to...

Active Exploitation of IBM Aspera Faspex CVE-2022-47986

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. On January 26, 2023, IBM published an advisory for multiple security issues affecting its Aspera Faspex software. The most critical of these was CVE-2022-47986, which is a...

CVE-2023-22501: Critical Broken Authentication Flaw in Jira Service Management Products

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. On February 1, 2023, Atlassian published an advisory for CVE-2023-22501, a critical broken authentication vulnerability affecting its Jira Service Management Server and Data Center...

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Zyxel firewall unauthenticated command injection This week, our very own Jake Baines added an exploit module that leverages CVE-2022-30525, an unauthenticated remote command injection vulnerability in Zyxel firewalls with zero touch provisioning ZTP support. Jake is also the author of the origina...

Black Hat 2021: Rapid7 Experts Share Key Day 2 Takeaways

Here we are again, back for another day of Rapid7 expert debriefings and analysis for some of the most talked-about Black Hat sessions of this year. So without further delay, let’s take it away! Get more DEF CON 2021 insights from our Research team on Tuesday, August 10 Sign up for our What...

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Authentication bypass in Wordpress Plugin WooCommerce Payments This week's Metasploit release includes a module for CVE-2023-28121 by h00die. This module can be used against any wordpress instance that uses WooCommerce payments 5.6.1. This module exploits an auth by-pass vulnerability in the...

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Zxyel Routers Beware This week we've released a module written by first time community contributor shr70 that can exploit roughly 45 different Zyxel router and VPN models. The module exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability that results in unauthenticated remote code execution on affected devices...

Rapid7 Observed Exploitation of Adobe ColdFusion

Rapid7’s Threat Intelligence and Detection Engineering team has identified active exploitation of Adobe ColdFusion in multiple customer environments. The observed activity dates back to January 2023 and has not been tied back to a specific CVE at this time. IOCs are included below. Rapid7 has...

Exploitation of GoAnywhere MFT zero-day vulnerability

Emergent threats evolve quickly. As we learn more about this vulnerability, we will update this blog post with relevant information about technical findings, product coverage, and other information that can assist you with assessment and mitigation. On Thursday, February 2, 2023, security reporte...

The Hidden Harm of Silent Patches

Hey all. I'm about to head off to RSAC 2022, but I wanted to jot down some thoughts I've had lately on a particularly squirrelly issue that comes up occasionally in coordinated vulnerability disclosure CVD — the issue of silent patches, and how they tend to help focused attackers and harm IT...

2020 Under the Hoodie Report Reveals Pen Testers’ Most-Loved Vulnerabilities

Penetration testing “pentesting” is the practice of simulating a criminal breach of a sensitive area in order to uncover and fix defensive failures. Rapid7’s recently released report, Under the Hoodie, draws from the experiences of our Rapid7 pen testing services teamers to highlight key...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 12/13/2024

It’s raining RCEs! It's the second week of December and the weather forecast announced another storm of RCEs in Metasploit-Framework land. This weekly release includes RCEs for Moodle e-Learning platform, Primefaces, WordPress Really Simple SSL and CyberPanel along with two modules to change...

What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q1 2023 in Review

In Q1, our team continued to focus on driving better customer outcomes with InsightVM and Nexpose by further improving efficiency and performance. While many of these updates are under the hood, you may have started to notice faster vulnerability checks available for the recent ETRs or an upgrade...

Rapid7’s Impact from OpenSSL Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-3786 & CVE-2022-3602)

As stated in our OpenSSL Buffer Overflow blog post, the CVE-2022-3786 & CVE-2022-3602 vulnerabilities affecting OpenSSL’s 3.0.x versions both rely on a maliciously crafted email address in a certificate. CVE-2022-3786 can overflow an arbitrary number of bytes on the stack with the “.” character a...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Desert heat not the 1999 film This week was more quiet than normal with Black Hat USA and DEF CON, but that didn’t stop the team from delivering some small enhancements and bug fixes! We are also excited to see two new modules 15519 and 15520 from researcher Jacob Baines’ DEF CON talk ​​Bring You...

What’s New in InsightIDR: Q1 2021 in Review

Back at the start of the year, we reflected on some of our 2020 InsightIDR product investments and took a look at what was ahead in 2021 see the blog here. As the first quarter of the year comes to a close, we wanted to offer a closer look at some of the recent updates and releases in InsightIDR,...

Vulntober: Multiple Mobile Browser Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerabilities

Today, we're announcing a coordinated vulnerability disclosure publication with our longtime mobile hacker friend, Rafay Baloch. If you'd like to just jump straight to the technical details for these vulnerabilities, I invite you to read his paper here. If you want to know more about why this...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of SMTP

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...

CVE-2024-45195: Apache OFBiz Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Fixed)

Apache OFBiz below 18.12.16 is vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution on Linux and Windows. An attacker with no valid credentials can exploit missing view authorization checks in the web application to execute arbitrary code on the server. Exploitation is facilitated by bypassing...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 02/23/2024

LDAP Capture module Metasploit now has an LDAP capture module thanks to the work of JustAnda7. This work was completed as part of the Google Summer of Code program. When the module runs it will by default require privileges to listen on port 389. The module implements a default implementation for...

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Unauthenticated RCE in VMware Product This week, community contributor h00die added an exploit module that leverages a command injection vulnerability in VMWare Aria Operations for Networks, formerly known as vRealize Network Insight. Versions 6.2 to 6.10 are vulnerable CVE-2023-20887. A remote...

CVE-2023-27350: Ongoing Exploitation of PaperCut Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2023-27350 is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in PaperCut MF/NG print management software that allows attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM on vulnerable targets. A patch is available for this vulnerability and should be applied on an...

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Spring Cloud Gateway RCE This week, a new module that exploits a code injection vulnerability in Spring Cloud Gateway CVE-2022-22947 has been added by @Ayantaker. Versions 3.1.0 and 3.0.0 to 3.0.6 are vulnerable if the Gateway Actuator endpoint is enabled, exposed and unsecured. The module sends ...