Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 01/26/24

Direct Syscalls Support for Windows Meterpreter Direct system calls are a well-known technique that is often used to bypass EDR/AV detection. This technique is particularly useful when dynamic analysis is performed, where the security software monitors every process on the system to detect any...

Baxter SIGMA Spectrum Infusion Pumps: Multiple Vulnerabilities (FIXED)

Rapid7, Inc. Rapid7 discovered vulnerabilities in two TCP/IP-enabled medical devices produced by Baxter Healthcare. The affected products are: SIGMA Spectrum Infusion Pump Firmware Version 8.00.01 SIGMA Wi-Fi Battery Firmware Versions 16, 17, 20 D29 Rapid7 initially reported these issues to Baxte...

New Rapid7 MDR Essentials Capability Sees What Attackers See: “It’s Eye-Opening”

The pandemic and remote work shattered your perimeter. Your attack surface has changed — and will keep changing. It’s our mission to help customers strengthen security defenses and stay ahead of evil. As the modern perimeter expands, new and old vulnerabilities emerge as open doors for attackers;...

Patch Tuesday Dashboard Template Release

We know that many security teams rely on Microsoft’s patch cycle to remediate vulnerabilities in their environments. However, every month , Patch Tuesday introduces numerous vulnerabilities and their solutions that apply to many, if not nearly all, devices. Keeping up with the deployment of these...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/28/2025

Windows LPE - Cloud File Mini Filer Driver Heap Overflow This Metasploit release includes an exploit module for CVE-2024-30085, an LPE in cldflt.sys which is known as the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filer Driver. This driver allows users to manage and sync files between a remote server and a local...

CVE-2023-49103 - Critical Information Disclosure in ownCloud Graph API

Rapid7 is responding to CVE-2023-49103, an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability impacting ownCloud. Background ownCloud is a file sharing platform designed for enterprise environments. On November 21, 2023, ownCloud disclosed CVE-2023-49103, an unauthenticated information disclosu...

Recog Release v3.0.3

Recog Release v3.0.3, which is available now, includes updated fingerprints for Zoho ManageEngine PAM360, Password Manager Pro, and Access Manager Plus; Atlassian Bitbucket Server; and Supervisord Supervisor. It also includes new fingerprints and a number of bug fixes, all of which are detailed...

CVE-2023-0391: MGT-COMMERCE CloudPanel Shared Certificate Vulnerability and Weak Installation Procedures

While using the popular self-hosted web administration solution, CloudPanel from MGT-COMMERCE, Rapid7 researcher Tod Beardsley discovered three security concerns. The first, an issue involving the trustworthiness of the installation script provided by the vendor, was an instance of CWE-494:...

Codecov Discloses Supply Chain Compromise

The following blog was co-authored by Curt Barnard and Caitlin Condon. On April 15, 2021, code coverage and testing company Codecov announced a supply chain compromise in which a malicious party gained access to their Bash Uploader script and modified it without authorization, enabling the...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Wowza, a new credential gatherer and login scanner! This week Metasploit Framework gained a credential gatherer for Wowza Streaming Engine Manager. Credentials for this application are stored in a file named admin.password in a known location and the file is readable by default by BUILTIN\Users o...

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I'm sure you know what's coming, more Log4Shell For those wondering when the Log4Shell remediation nightmare will end, I'm afraid I can't give you that. What I can give you, though, is a new Log4Shell module! With the new module from zeroSteiner you can expect to get unauthenticated RCE on the...

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...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

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...

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...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fortra Globalscape EFT Administration Server [FIXED]

!Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fortra Globalscape EFT Administration Server \FIXED\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/06/GettyImages-1345443906.jpg Earlier this year, Rapid7 researchers undertook a project to analyze managed file transfer applications, due to the number of recent...

CVE-2021-20025: SonicWall Email Security Appliance Backdoor Credential

The virtual, on-premises version of the SonicWall Email Security Appliance ships with an undocumented, static credential, which can be used by an attacker to gain root privileges on the device. This is an instance of CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials, and has an estimated CVSSv3 score of 9.1...

Rapid7 Labs’ 2020 Naughty List Summary Report to Santa

As requested, your dutiful elves here at Rapid7 Labs have compiled a list of the naughty country networks being used to launch cyberattacks across the globe. Needless to say, some source networks have been very naughty dare we use the word “again,” since these all seem to be repeat offenders. To...

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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Cacti Unauthenticated Command Injection Thanks to community contributor Erik Wynter, Metasploit Framework now has an exploit module for an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in the Cacti network-monitoring software. The vulnerability is due to a procopen call that accepts unsanitized...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

A sack full of cheer from the Hacking Elves of Metasploit It is clear that the Metasploit elves have been busy this season: Five new modules, six new enhancements, nine new bug fixes, and a partridge in a pear tree are headed out this week! Partridge nor pear tree included. In this sack of goodie...

Exploitation of Mitel MiVoice Connect SA CVE-2022-29499

In April 2022, telecommunications company Mitel published a security advisory on CVE-2022-29499, a data validation vulnerability in the Service Appliance component of MiVoice Connect, a business communications product. The vulnerability, which was unpatched at time of publication, arose from...

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...

Vulnerability Scanning With the Metasploit Remote Check Service (Beta Release)

InsightVM and Nexpose customers can now harness the power of the Metasploit community to assess their exposure to the latest threats. The Feb. 3 release of InsightVM and Nexpose version 6.6.63 includes a beta version of the Metasploit Remote Check Service, bringing Metasploit check method...

Rapid7 Introduces Exposure Command to Eliminate the Security Visibility Gap

Exposure Command provides 360-degree visibility and enables security teams to pinpoint and extinguish your most critical risks. Security and IT teams are experiencing a significant shift in operations as they become more distributed. Development and procurement processes have decentralized, and...

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...

CVE-2023-42793: Critical Authentication Bypass in JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD Servers

On September 20, 2023, JetBrains disclosed CVE-2023-42793, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in on-premises instances of their TeamCity CI/CD server. Successful exploitation of CVE-2023-42793 allows an unauthenticated attacker with HTTPS access to a TeamCity server to perform a remot...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

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...

Lessons in IoT Hacking: How to Dead-Bug a BGA Flash Memory Chip

Dead-bugging — what is that, you ask? The concept comes from the idea that a memory chip, once it’s flipped over so you can attach wires to it, looks a little like a dead bug on its back. So why would we do this for the purposes of IoT hacking? The typical reason is if you want to extract the...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

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...

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

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

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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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...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

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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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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

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,...

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...

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

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

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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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...

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...

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...

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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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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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

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...