Patch Tuesday - December 2023

Microsoft is addressing 34 vulnerabilities this December Patch Tuesday, including a single zero-day vulnerability and three critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities. December Patch Tuesday has historically seen fewer patches than a typical month, and this trend continues in 2023. This...

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...

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...

Rapid7 Announces Improvements to Goals and SLAs in InsightVM

We know that proving the efficacy of your vulnerability management program is no easy task. But with the Goals and SLAs feature in InsightVM, you can ensure you’re making and tracking progress toward your goals and service-level agreements SLAs at an appropriate place, as well as maintaining...

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...

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...

NICER Protocol Deep Dive: Internet Exposure of memcached

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-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...

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;...

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 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...

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...

How Philip Reiner Created the Ransomware Task Force

In our latest episode of Security Nation, we talk to Philip Reiner about his work with the Ransomware Task Force. Stick around for our Rapid Rundown, where Tod talks about a recently released bulletin from CISA about APT exploiting both new and old SAP vulnerabilities. Want More Inspiring Stories...

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...

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-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:...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

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...

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...

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

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

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...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

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...

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...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 04/11/2025

Spring Exploits This weekly release of Metasploit Framework includes new RCE exploit modules for several vulnerable applications: Appsmith, a low-code application platform which contains a misconfiguration on PostgreSQL CVE-2024-55964; Pandora FMS, a monitoring solution, where, once gained access...

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 Wrap-Up

Redis Sandbox Escape Our very own Jake Baines wrote a module that performs a sandbox escape on Redis versions between 5.0.0 and 6.1.0 and achieves remote code execution as the redis user. Redis installations can be password protected, so this module supports exploiting the vulnerability with and...

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...

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...

Modular Java Backdoor Dropped in Cleo Exploitation Campaign

Many thanks to Rapid7 MDR and incident response teams for their contributions to this analysis. While investigating incidents related to Cleo software exploitation, Rapid7 Labs and MDR observed a novel, multi-stage attack that deploys an encoded Java Archive JAR payload. Our investigation reveale...

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...

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...

SonicWall Recommends Urgent Patching for GMS and Analytics CVEs

On Wednesday, July 12, 2023, security firm SonicWall published an urgent security advisory warning customers of 15 new vulnerabilities affecting on-premise instances of their Global Management System GMS and Analytics products. Four of the vulnerabilities carry critical severity ratings:...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-up

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...

[Security Nation] Brian Honan on creating Ireland's first CERT

!\Security Nation\ Brian Honan on creating Ireland's first CERThttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/07/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, we’re joined by Brian Honan of BH Consulting. Jen and Tod chat with Brian about his experience as a founder of Ireland's first...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...