Patch Tuesday - March 2026

Microsoft is publishing 77 vulnerabilities this March 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is aware of public disclosure of two of today’s vulnerabilities, but without evidence of exploitation in the wild for any yet, so there are no Microsoft additions to CISA KEV today. Earlier in the month, Microsoft...

When Trusted Websites Turn Malicious: WordPress Compromises Advance Global Stealer Operation

Overview Rapid7 Labs has identified and analyzed an ongoing, widespread compromise of legitimate, potentially highly trusted WordPress websites, misused by an unidentified threat actor to inject a ClickFix implant impersonating a Cloudflare human verification challenge CAPTCHA. The lure is design...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 03/06/2026

Encoder exposed! Some of our releases add new ways in; this one adds new ways to stay in. There are, of course, still new RCE toys in the box Tactical RMM via Jinja2 SSTI and an unauthenticated MajorDoMo exploit. Still, the underlying theme is payloads: more control over how they are packaged and...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/27/2026

No Prob-ollama This release brings some serious firepower with multiple new exploit modules and critical vulnerability support! The standout additions are the Ollama path traversal RCE CVE-2024-37032, a sophisticated exploit chaining arbitrary file writes into unauthenticated root RCE, and the...

Before the Breach: When digital footprints become a strategic cyber risk

Overview For years, organizations have prioritized strengthening technical defenses, including hardening networks, accelerating patch management, and expanding endpoint detection and response capabilities. Defensive systems have become more adaptive, identity has moved to the center of security...

Critical Cisco Catalyst Vulnerability Exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-20127)

Overview On February 25, 2026, Cisco disclosed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN Controller and Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN Manager, tracked as CVE‑2026‑20127, that allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain administrative access to affected systems. The Cisco...

Your MRI is Online: The Hidden Risks of Exposed DICOM Servers in UK Healthcare

Hospitals invest heavily in physical security: Clinical areas are access-controlled, sensitive rooms are locked, and patient records are governed by strict handling procedures. Network exposure does not always receive the same level of scrutiny. Rapid7 Labs identified more than 30 UK-based system...

The Post-RAMP Era: Allegations, Fragmentation, and the Rebuilding of the Ransomware Underground

Executive summary The January 2026 seizure of RAMP disrupted a major ransomware coordination hub, but it did not dismantle the ecosystem behind it. Instead, it destabilized trust and accelerated fragmentation across the underground. Rather than consolidating around a single successor, ransomware...

New Report: The Digital Footprints of Many Executives Can Leave Their Companies Seriously Exposed

Senior leaders are visible by design. They speak at events, post on LinkedIn, sit on boards, and sign public filings. That visibility builds brands and drives growth. It also creates risk. In our latest Rapid7 Labs report, Executives’ Digital Footprints: The Overlooked Corporate Vulnerability , w...

Alert Fatigue Isn’t Going Away. Here’s How Modern SOCs Are Fighting Back

Security teams have been talking about alert fatigue for years. And yet, for many SOCs, the problem isn’t getting better. It’s getting worse. As environments expand across cloud, SaaS, identity, and legacy systems, analysts are flooded with signals that all demand attention but rarely arrive with...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/20/2026

Hacking Churches and Backdooring Emacs This release packs some solid exploit module additions! Two new unauthenticated RCE modules are a major win: the StoryChief WordPress plugin exploit CVE-2025-7441 targets a webhook validation flaw allowing arbitrary file uploads, while the ChurchCRM exploit...

The Phone is Listening: A Cold War–Style Vulnerability in Modern VoIP

I don’t know about you, but when I think about “critical vulnerabilities,” I usually picture ransomware, data theft, or maybe a server falling over at 2 a.m. while someone frantically searches Slack for the last good backup. What I don’t picture is a scene straight out of a Cold War spy film...

CVE-2026-2329: Critical Unauthenticated Stack Buffer Overflow in Grandstream GXP1600 VoIP Phones (FIXED)

Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against the Grandstream GXP1600 series of Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP phones. This research resulted in the discovery of a critical unauthenticated stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability, CVE-2026-2329. A remote attacker can...

Building the Future of Cloud Security: Rapid7 Recognized in Cloud Native Application Protection, Q1 2026

We are excited to share Rapid7’s recognition in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions CNAPP , Q1 2026 1. We see this acknowledgment as a milestone that highlights our strategic evolution and continued drive to help security teams shift from reactive defense to...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/13/2026

SolarWinds Web Help Desk Our very own sfewer-r7 has developed an exploit module for the SolarWinds Web Help Desk vulnerabilities CVE-2025-40536 and CVE-2025-40551. On successful exploitation the session will be as running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. For more information see the Rapid7’s SolarWinds We...

Patch Tuesday - February 2026

Microsoft is publishing 55 vulnerabilities this February 2026 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is aware of exploitation in the wild for six of today’s vulnerabilities, and notes public disclosure for three of those. Earlier in the month, Microsoft provided patches to address three browser vulnerabilities...

Measuring AI Security: Separating Signal from Panic

The conversation around AI security is full of anxiety. Every week, new headlines warn of jailbreaks, prompt injection, agents gone rogue, and the rise of LLM-enabled cybercrime. It’s easy to come away with the impression that AI is fundamentally uncontrollable and dangerous, and therefore...

CVE-2026-1731: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA)

Overview On February 6, 2026, BeyondTrust released security advisory BT26-02, disclosing a critical pre-authentication Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability affecting its Remote Support RS and Privileged Remote Access PRA products. Assigned CVE-2026-1731 and a near-maximum CVSSv4 score of 9.9,...

Vulnerability Found in InsightVM & Nexpose: CVE-2026-1814 (FIXED)

We are grateful to the research team at Atredis for sharing their findings around a vulnerability CVE-2026-1814 impacting our vulnerability management offerings InsightVM and Nexpose. We have identified a fix that addresses this vulnerability and will be delivered via a Security Console product...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 02/06/2026

Google Summer of Code 2026 Our very own Jack Heysel has added some documentation which outlines the Metasploit Framework project ideas for GSoC 2026. For anyone interested in applying please see GSoC-How-To-Apply documentation, or reach out on slack to any of the following GSoC mentors on Slack v...

Chrysalis, Notepad++, and Supply Chain Risk: What it Means, and What to Do Next

When Rapid7 published its analysis of the Chrysalis backdoor linked to a compromise of Notepad++ update infrastructure, it raised understandable questions from customers and security teams. The investigation showed that attackers did not exploit a flaw in the application itself. Instead, they...

ICYMI: Experts on Experts – Season One Roundup

In 2025, we launched Experts on Experts: Commanding Perspectives as a pilot video series designed to spotlight the ideas shaping cybersecurity, directly from the people driving them. Over five episodes, Rapid7 leaders shared short, candid conversations on topics like agentic AI, MDR ROI,...

The Chrysalis Backdoor: A Deep Dive into Lotus Blossom’s toolkit

Rapid7 Labs, together with the Rapid7 MDR team, has uncovered a sophisticated campaign attributed to the Chinese APT group Lotus Blossom. Active since 2009, the group is known for its targeted espionage campaigns primarily impacting organizations across Southeast Asia and more recently Central...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/30/2026

FreeBPX Content Galore This week brings 3 new pieces of module content for targeting FreePBX. All three chain multiple vulnerabilities together, starting with CVE-2025-66039. This initial vulnerability allows unauthenticated users to bypass the authentication process to interact with FreePBX. Fro...

Critical Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-1281 & CVE-2026-1340)

Overview On January 29, 2026, Ivanti disclosed two new critical vulnerabilities affecting Endpoint Manager Mobile EPMM: CVE-2026-1281 and CVE-2026-1340. The vendor has indicated that exploitation in the wild has already occurred prior to disclosure. This has been echoed by CISA who added...

Patch Tuesday and the Enduring Challenge of Windows’ Backwards Compatibility

Introduction If you received an email with the subject “I LOVE YOU” and an attachment called “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT”, would you open it? Probably not, but back in the year 2000, plenty of people did exactly that. The internet learned a hard lesson about the disproportionate power available to a...

Multiple Critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk Vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-40551, CVE-2025-40552, CVE-2025-40553, CVE-2025-40554

Overview On January 28, 2026, SolarWinds published an advisory for multiple new vulnerabilities affecting their Web Help Desk product. Web Help Desk is an IT help desk ticketing and asset management software solution. Of the six new CVEs disclosed in the advisory, four are critical, and allow a...

Threat Actors Using AWS WorkMail in Phishing Campaigns

Introduction At Rapid7, we track a wide range of threats targeting cloud environments, where a frequent objective is hijacking victim infrastructure to host phishing or spam campaigns. Beyond the obvious security risks, this approach allows threat actors to offload their operational costs onto th...

The End of the Road for Cisco Kenna: Take a Measured Path into Exposure Management

Cisco’s announcement that it will sunset Cisco Vulnerability Management Kenna marks a clear inflection point for many security teams. With end-of-sale and end-of-life timelines now defined, and no replacement offering on the roadmap, Kenna customers face an unavoidable decision window. Beyond the...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/23/2026

Oracle E-Business Suite Unauth RCE This week, we are pleased to announce the addition of a module that exploits CVE-2025-61882, a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite versions 12.2.3 through 12.2.14. The exploit chains multiple flaws—including SSRF, pa...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/16/2026

Persistence, dMSA Abuse & RCE Goodies This week, we have received a lot of contributions from the community, such as h00die, Chocapikk and countless others, which is greatly appreciated. This week’s modules and improvements in Metasploit Framework range from new modules, such as dMSA Abuse...

Reducing Cloud Chaos: Rapid7 Partners with ARMO to Deliver Cloud Runtime Security

Rapid7 has partnered with ARMO, a leader in cloud infrastructure and application security based on runtime data, to offer Cloud Runtime Security. The new offering, currently in beta, extends our vulnerability and exposure management solution, Exposure Command, into the moment where cloud risk...

Patch Tuesday - January 2026

Microsoft is publishing 114 vulnerabilities this January 2026 Patch Tuesday. Today’s menu includes just one vulnerability marked as exploited in the wild, as well as two vulnerabilities where Microsoft is aware of public disclosure. There are no critical remote code execution or elevation of...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 01/09/2026

RISC-V Payloads This week brings more RISC-V payloads from community member bcoles. One provides a new adapter which allows RISC-V payloads to be converted to commands and delivered as a Metasploit fetch-payload. The second is a classic bind shell, offering the user interactive connectivity to th...

Ni8mare and N8scape flaws among multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting n8n

Overview On November 18, 2025, a patched release was published for a critical unauthenticated file read vulnerability in n8n, a popular piece of automation software. The advisory for this vulnerability, CVE-2026-21858, was subsequently published on January 7, 2026; the vulnerability holds a CVSS...

Metasploit 2025 Annual Wrap-Up

Hard to believe it's that time again, and that Metasploit Framework will see the dawn of another Annual Wrap-Up and a New Year. All of the metrics and modules you see here would in large part not be possible without the dedicated community members who care about the Framework and its mission on a...

MongoBleed CVE-2025-14847: Critical Memory Leak in MongoDB Allowing Attackers to Extract Sensitive Data

Overview On December 19, 2025, MongoDB Inc. disclosed a critical new vulnerability, CVE-2025-14847, which has since been dubbed MongoBleed. This vulnerability is a high-severity unauthenticated memory leak affecting MongoDB, one of the world's most popular document-oriented databases. While...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 12/19/2025

React2Shell Payload Improvements Last week Metasploit released an exploit for the React2Shell vulnerability, and this week we have made a couple of improvements to the payloads that it uses. The first improvement affects all Metasploit modules. When an exploit is used, an initial payload is...

CVE-2025-37164: Critical unauthenticated RCE affecting Hewlett Packard Enterprise OneView

Overview On December 17, 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE published an advisory for CVE-2025-37164, a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in HPE OneView. The vulnerability, which was reported to HPE by security researcher Nguyen Quoc Khanh, facilitates unauthenticated remote code execution RCE on version...

Critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet CVE-2025-59718, CVE-2025-59719, CVE-2026-24858 exploited in the wild

Overview Update for CVE-2026-24858: On January 27, 2026, Fortinet disclosedCVE-2026-24858 , a critical unauthenticated vulnerability allowing authentication bypass via Fortinet’s cloud SSO. Confirmed as a net-new vulnerability rather than a patch bypass, it has beenobserved under active zero-day...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 12/12/2025

React2shell Module As you may have heard, on December 3, 2025, the React team announced a critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability in servers using the React Server Components RSC Flight protocol. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, carries a CVSS score of 10.0 and is informally...

New Research: Multifunction Printer (MFP) Security Concerns within the Enterprise Business Environment

Multifunction printers MFPs do far more than print. They scan, email, fax, store, and authenticate. That convenience comes with risk. Our latest report, Understanding Multifunction Printer MFP Security within the Enterprise Business Environment, from Rapid7’s Deral Heiland, Principal Security...

Patch Tuesday - December 2025

Microsoft is publishing a relatively light 54 new vulnerabilities this December 2025 Patch Tuesday, which is significantly lower than we have come to expect over the past couple of years. Today’s list includes two publicly disclosed remote code vulnerabilities, and a single exploited-in-the-wild...

CVE-2025-10573: Ivanti EPM Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (Fixed)

Ivanti Endpoint Manager “EPM” versions 2024 SU4 and below are vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting “XSS”. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-10573 and assigned a CVSS score of 9.6, was patched on December 9, 2025 with the release of Ivanti EPM version EPM 2024 SU4 SR1. An attacker with...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 12/05/2025

Twonky Auth Bypass, RCEs and RISC-V Reverse Shell Payloads This was another fantastic week in terms of PR contribution to the Metasploit Framework. Rapid7’s very own Ryan Emmons recently disclosed CVE-2025-13315 and CVE-2025-13316 which exist in Twonky Server and allow decrypting admin credential...

React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) - Critical unauthenticated RCE affecting React Server Components

Overview Update 1: As of 4:30 PM Eastern, December 4, 2025, Rapid7 has validated that a working weaponizedproof-of-concept exploit ,shared by researcher@maple3142 , is now publicly available. Update 2: On December 5, 2025,Lachlan Davidson who discovered the vulnerability has also published...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 11/28/2025

This week, we have added 10 new modules to Metasploit Framework including an SMB to MSSQL relay module, a remote code execution module targeting Fortinet software, additional 32-bit and 64-bit RISC-V payloads, and more. The SMB to MSSQL NTLM relay module allows users to open MSSQL sessions and ru...

From Extortion to E-commerce: How Ransomware Groups Turn Breaches into Bidding Wars

Ransomware has evolved from simple digital extortion into a structured, profit-driven criminal enterprise. Over time, it has led to the development of a complex ecosystem where stolen data is not only leveraged for ransom, but also sold to the highest bidder. This trend first gained traction in...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 11/21/2025

CVE-2025-64446 - Fortinet’s FortiWeb exploitation A critical vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiWeb Web Application Firewall, now assigned CVE-2025-64446 CVSS 9.1, allows unauthenticated attackers to gain full administrator access to the FortiWeb Manager interface and its websocket CLI. The flaw...

CVE-2025-13315, CVE-2025-13316: Critical Twonky Server Authentication Bypass (NOT FIXED)

Overview Twonky Server version 8.5.2 is susceptible to two vulnerabilities that facilitate administrator authentication bypass on Linux and Windows. An unauthenticated attacker can improperly access a privileged web API endpoint to leak application logs, which contain encrypted administrator...