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Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Improved Ticket Forging Metasploit’s admin/kerberos/forgeticket module has been updated to work with Server 2022. In Windows Server 2022, Microsoft started requiring additional new PAC elements to be present - the PAC requestor and PAC attributes. The newly forged tickets will have the necessary...
Rapid7 Delivers Visibility Across All 19 Steps of Attack in 2023 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise
Over seven years ago, we set out to change the way that SOCs approach threat detection and response. With the introduction of InsightIDR, we wanted to address the false positives and snowballing complexity that was burning out analysts, deteriorating security posture, and inhibiting necessary...
Rapid7 doubles down on a platform approach for Vulnerability Risk Management
This week, Rapid7 was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q3 2023. The report, which included 11 vulnerability risk management vendors, represented Rapid7's inclusion in the Wave report for vulnerability management. We are proud to be recognized for our...
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...
Patch Tuesday - September 2023
Microsoft is addressing 65 vulnerabilities this September Patch Tuesday, including two zero-day vulnerabilities, as well as four critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities, and six republished third-party vulnerabilities. Word: zero-day NTLM hash disclosure Microsoft Word receives a patch...
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...
A Look at Our Development Process of the Cloud Resource Enrichment API
In today's ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, detecting and responding to cyber threats is paramount for organizations in cloud environments. At the same time, investigating cyber threat alerts can be arduous due to the time-consuming and complex process of data collection. To tackle this pai...
A Look at Our Development Process of the Cloud Resource Enrichment API
In today's ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, detecting and responding to cyber threats is paramount for organizations in cloud environments. At the same time, investigating cyber threat alerts can be arduous due to the time-consuming and complex process of data collection. To tackle this pai...
CVE-2023-4528: Java Deserialization Vulnerability in JSCAPE MFT (Fixed)
In August 2023, Rapid7 discovered a Java deserialization vulnerability in Redwood Software’s JSCAPE MFT secure managed file transfer product. The vulnerability was later assigned CVE-2023-4528. It can be exploited by sending an XML-encoded Java object to the Manager Service port, which, by defaul...
CVE-2023-4528: Java Deserialization Vulnerability in JSCAPE MFT (Fixed)
In August 2023, Rapid7 discovered a Java deserialization vulnerability in Redwood Software’s JSCAPE MFT secure managed file transfer product. The vulnerability was later assigned CVE-2023-4528. It can be exploited by sending an XML-encoded Java object to the Manager Service port, which, by defaul...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
Pumpkin Spice Modules Here in the northern hemisphere, fall is on the way: leaves changing, the air growing crisp and cool, and some hackers changing the flavor of their caffeine. This release features a new exploit module targeting Apache NiFi as well as a new and improved library to interact wi...
Fake Update Utilizes New IDAT Loader To Execute StealC and Lumma Infostealers
Technical Analysis by: Thomas Elkins, Natalie Zargarov Contributions: Evan McCann, Tyler McGraw Recently, Rapid7 observed the Fake Browser Update lure tricking users into executing malicious binaries. While analyzing the dropped binaries, Rapid7 determined a new loader is utilized in order to...
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...
PenTales: What It’s Like on the Red Team
At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re sharing some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully highlight som...
Velociraptor 0.7.0 Release: Dig Deeper With Enhanced Client Search, Server Improvements and Expanded VQL Library
Carlos Canto contributed to this article. Rapid7 is thrilled to announce version 0.7.0 of Velociraptor is now LIVE and available for download. The focus of this release was on improving user efficiency while also expanding and strengthening the library of VQL plug-ins and artifacts. Let’s take a...
Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs
Tyler Starks, Christiaan Beek, Robert Knapp, Zach Dayton, and Caitlin Condon contributed to this blog. Rapid7’s managed detection and response MDR teams have observed increased threat activity targeting Cisco ASA SSL VPN appliances physical and virtual dating back to at least March 2023. In some...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up
PowershellPoint This week’s new features and improvements start with two new exploit modules leveraging CVE-2023-34960 Chamilo versions 1.11.18 and below and CVE-2023-26469 in Jorani 1.0.0. Like CVE-2023-34960, I too, feel attacked by PowerPoint sometimes. We also have several improvements,...
Why Your AWS Cloud Container Needs Client-Side Security
With increasingly complicated network infrastructure and organizations needing to deploy applications across various environments, cloud containers are necessary for companies to stay agile and innovative. Containers are packages of software that hold all of the necessary components for an app to...
Why Your AWS Cloud Container Needs Client-Side Security
With increasingly complicated network infrastructure and organizations needing to deploy applications across various environments, cloud containers are necessary for companies to stay agile and innovative. Containers are packages of software that hold all of the necessary components for an app to...
Three Security Vendor Consolidation Myths Debunked
When it comes to security vendor consolidation, Gartner found that 57% of organizations are working with fewer than ten security vendors, utilizing consolidation to cut costs and improve their overall security posture. But what about the other 43%? While security vendor consolidation has many...
Ransomware-as-a-Service Cheat Sheet
Ransomware-as-a-Service, or RaaS, has taken the threat landscape by storm — so much so that in 2023, the White House re-classified ransomware as a national security threat. How has RaaS taken the impact of ransomware attacks to this next level of federal concern? By allowing potential...
Rapid7 Takes 2023 SC Awards for Vulnerability Management and Threat Detection
The highly respected SC Awards program, hosted by SC Media, recognizes the solutions, organizations, and people driving innovation and success in information security. Now in its 26th year, the SC Awards continue to grow and evolve. Rapid7 is proud to announce we have received not one, but two...
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...
Join us for VeloCON 2023: Digging Deeper Together!
September 13, 2023 at 9 am ET Rapid7 is thrilled to announce that the 2nd annual VeloCON: Digging Deeper Together virtual summit will be held this September 13th at 9 am ET. Once again, the conference will be online and completely free! VeloCON is a one-day event focused on the Velociraptor...
Rapid7’s Mid-Year Threat Review
It will come as little surprise to most people that cyber threats in 2023 have been rather prolific. From widely exploited vulnerabilities to high-profile ransomware and extortion campaigns, the first half of the year has seen more than its fair share of large-scale incidents. Rapid7’s 2023...
What's New in CVSS v4
The pending update to the Common Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS, version 4.0, has garnered a noticeable volume of articles, blog posts and watercooler now known as Slack and Zoom air time. Reaction from the community has been positive, with general sentiment pinned somewhere near...
Metasploit weekly wrap-up
New module content 1 Metabase Setup Token RCE Authors: Maxwell Garrett, Shubham Shah, and h00die Type: Exploit Pull request: 18232 contributed by h00die Path: exploits/linux/http/metabasesetuptokenrce AttackerKB reference: CVE-2023-38646 Description: This adds a module for an unauthenticated RCE...
Patch Tuesday - August 2023
Microsoft is addressing 86 vulnerabilities this August Patch Tuesday, including one zero-day vulnerability, as well as five critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities, and 12 browser vulnerabilities. An unpatched zero-day malicious document vulnerability from July also receives Windows OS...
A Message from Rapid7 CEO, Corey Thomas
Earlier today, the following email was shared with Rapid7 employees. Team, As we accelerate our delivery of the leading security operations solution and service platform experience to customers, we have determined it is necessary to restructure our operations, including the difficult decision to...
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,...
PenTales: A Badge, a Tag, and a Bunch of Unattended Chemicals; Why Physical Social Engineering Engagements are an Important Part of Security
At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully...
Poorly Purged Medical Devices Present Security Concerns After Sale on Secondary Market
In a post-pandemic landscape, the interconnectedness of cybersecurity is front and center. Few could say that they were not at least aware of, if not directly affected by, the downstream effects of major breaches that cause impacts felt across economies. One should look at disruptions in the glob...
CVE-2023-35082 - MobileIron Core Unauthenticated API Access Vulnerability
When this blog was originally published on August 2, it said that CVE-2023-35082 only affected MobileIron Core 11.2 and earlier, which are unsupported. On August 7, Ivanti published an updated advisory noting that since originally disclosing CVE-2023-35082, they have continued their investigation...
InsightAppSec Advanced Authentication Settings: Token Replacement
There are many different ways to use InsightAppSec to authenticate to web apps, but sometimes you need to go deeper into the advanced settings to fully automate your logins, especially with API scanning. Today, we’ll cover one of those advanced settings: Token Replacement. InsightAppSec Token...
New InsightCloudSec Compliance Pack for CIS AWS Benchmark 2.0.0
The Center for Internet Security CIS recently released version two of their AWS Benchmark. CIS AWS Benchmark 2.0.0 brings two new recommendations and eliminates one from the previous version. The update also includes some minor formatting changes to certain recommendation descriptions. In this...
New InsightCloudSec Compliance Pack for CIS AWS Benchmark 2.0.0
The Center for Internet Security CIS recently released version two of their AWS Benchmark. CIS AWS Benchmark 2.0.0 brings two new recommendations and eliminates one from the previous version. The update also includes some minor formatting changes to certain recommendation descriptions. In this...
How To Present SecOps Metrics (The Right Way)
SecOps metrics can be a gold mine of potential for informing better business decisions, but 78% of CEOs say they don’t have adequate data on risk exposure to make good decisions. Even when they do see the right data, 82% are inclined to “trust their gut” anyway. Here lies the disconnect between...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap up
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...
PenTales: There Are Many Ways to Infiltrate the Cloud
At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully...
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...
Metasploit Weekly Wrap up
It’s open season on Openfire with a new RCE module in Metasploit This week the Metasploit framework saw the addition of an RCE module which exploits path traversal vulnerability in the instant messaging and group chat server, Openfire. The module was submitted by the one and only community...
PenTales: Testing Security Health for a Healthcare Company
At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully...
The Japanese Technology and Media Attack Landscape
Recently, we released a major report analyzing the threat landscape of Japan, the globe’s third largest economy. In that report we looked at the ways in which threat actors infiltrate Japanese companies spoiler alert: it is often through foreign subsidiaries and affiliates and some of the most...
CVE-2023-38205: Adobe ColdFusion Access Control Bypass [FIXED]
!CVE-2023-38205: Adobe ColdFusion Access Control Bypass \FIXED\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/07/GettyImages-1185282377-3.jpg On July 11, 2023, Rapid7 and Adobe disclosed CVE-2023-29298, an access control bypass vulnerability affecting ColdFusion, which Rapid7 had reported to Adobe i...
Critical Zero-Day Vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway
On Tuesday, July 18, Citrix published a security bulletin warning users of three new vulnerabilities affecting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Of the three vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-3519 is the most severe—successful exploitation allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code remotely on...
Managing Risk Across Hybrid Environments with Executive Risk View
Over the last decade or so, organizations of all shapes and sizes across all industries have been going through a seismic shift in the way they engage with their customers and deliver their solutions to the market. These new delivery models are often underpinned by cloud services, which can chang...
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...
[Lost Bots] S03 E04 A Security Leader’s Playbook for the C-suite
!\Lost Bots\ S03 E04 A Security Leader’s Playbook for the C-suitehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2023/07/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png In a special two-part “Lost Bots,” hosts Jeffrey Gardner and Stephen Davis talk about presenting cybersecurity results up the org chart. Both have handled...
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...
The Japanese Financial Services Attack Landscape
Recently, we released a major report analyzing the threat landscape of Japan, the globe’s third largest economy. In that report we looked at the ways in which threat actors infiltrate Japanese companies spoiler alert: it is often through foreign subsidiaries and affiliates and some of the most...