Culture Fitness

Have you checked in on the overall health of your team lately? What would a new hire think of your current team? Companies all over the world – particularly those of the higher-profile variety – tout their positive cultures and how great it is to be part of the team. This is especially true in th...

Cloud Security: Buyer Be Critical

Tailoring solutions to challenges It takes a toolbox with different, well, tools to secure an ever-expanding operational perimeter in the cloud. Think about what’s under the general daily purview of cloud security teams: preventing misconfigurations, taming threats and vulnerabilities, and so muc...

New Research: Optimizing DAST Vulnerability Triage with Deep Learning

On November 11th 2022, Rapid7 will for the first time publish and present state-of-the-art machine learning ML research at AISec, the leading venue for AI/ML cybersecurity innovations. Led by Dr. Stuart Millar, Senior Data Scientist, Rapid7's multi-disciplinary ML group has designed a novel deep...

New MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluation: Rapid7 MDR Excels

Every Managed Services organization claims they have the expertise and technology to effectively detect and respond to threats. But can they prove it? Assessing these services and how they’d perform in a real-world scenario just got easier with results from the first ever MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations...

Patch Tuesday - November 2022

It’s a relatively light Patch Tuesday this month by the numbers – Microsoft has only published 67 new CVEs, most of which affect their flagship Windows operating system. However, four of these are zero-days, having been observed as exploited in the wild. The big news is that two older zero-day CV...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 4

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory, how to extract file system data from the device, and how to modify the data we've extracted. In this post, we'll cover how to gain root access...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

C is for cookie And that’s good enough for Apache CouchDB, apparently. Our very own Jack Heysel added an exploit module based on CVE-2022-24706 targeting CouchDB prior to 3.2.2, leveraging a special default ‘monster’ cookie that allows users to run OS commands. This fake computer I just made says...

Rapid7’s Impact from Apache Commons Text Vulnerability (CVE-2022-42889)

As stated in our Apache Commons Text blog post, CVE-2022-42889 is a vulnerability in the popular Apache Commons Text library that can result in code execution when processing malicious input, and affects versions 1.5 through 1.9. This vulnerability has been patched as of Commons Text version 1.10...

Go Inside Rapid7 MDR: Timelines and Tick Tocks

They say by 2025, half of all businesses will turn to a managed detection and response MDR service. Breaches are called “inevitable” now. And even with a blank check, most companies couldn’t hire their way to tight security: the expertise just isn’t out there. In this new eBook you’ll find real...

Common questions when evolving your VM program

Authored by Natalie Hurd Perhaps your organization is in the beginning stages of planning a digital transformation, and it’s time to start considering how the security team will adapt. Or maybe your digital transformation is well underway, and the security team is struggling to keep up with the...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 3

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. In our previous posts, we covered how to achieve access to flash memory and how to extract file system data from the device. In this post, we'll cover how to modify the data we've extracted. Modify extracted file...

CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602: Two High-Severity Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL Fixed

The Rapid7 research team will update this blog post as we learn more details about this vulnerability and its attack surface area. The OpenSSL project released version 3.0.7 on November 1, 2022, to address CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting OpenSSL’s 3.0....

7 Rapid Questions with Toshio Honda, Sr. Security Solutions Engineer

Toshio Honda, Sr. Security Solutions Engineer You have been with Rapid7 for 4 years now, what originally attracted you to work here? I worked for a cybersecurity company who is a leader for the “Prevention” area prior to joining Rapid7, and I was looking for the next opportunity based on 3...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-UP

GLPI htmLawed PHP Command Injection Our very own bwatters-r7 wrote a module for an unauthenticated PHP command injection vulnerability that exists in various versions of GLPI. The vulnerability is due to a third-party vendor test script being present in default installations. A POST request to...

From Churn to Cherry on Top: How to Foster Talent in a Cybersecurity Skills Gap

The mythical unicorn pipeline When it comes to building a cybersecurity talent pipeline that feeds directly into your company, there’s one go-to source for individuals who are perfectly credentialed, know 100% of all the latest technology, and will be a perfect culture-fit: Imaginationland. Of...

CVE-2021-39144: VMware Cloud Foundation Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

On October 25, 2022, VMware published VMSA-2022-0027 on two vulnerabilities in its Cloud Foundation NSX-V solution. By far the more severe of these is CVE-2021-39144, an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability with a CVSSv3 score of 9.8. The vulnerability arises from a deserialization...

[Security Nation] Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygiene

!\Security Nation\ Jeremi Gosney on the Psychology of Password Hygienehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to renowned password security expert Jeremi Gosney about how we are all guilty of bad password...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Pt. 2

Welcome back to our blog series on Rapid7's IoT Village exercise from DEF CON 30. Last week, we covered the basics of the exercise and achieving access to flash memory. In this post, we'll cover how to extract partition data. Extracting partition data The next step in our hands-on IoT hacking...

Adapting existing VM programs to regain control

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. The scale, speed and complexity of cloud environments — particularly when you introduce containers and microservices — has made the lives of security professionals immensely harder. While it may seem trite, the reason we keep hearing this refrain is because,...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Zimbra with Postfix LPE CVE-2022-3569 This week rbowes added an LPE exploit for Zimbra with Postfix. The exploit leverages a vulnerability whereby the Zimbra user can run postfix as root which in turn is capable of executing arbitrary shellscripts. This can be abused for reliable privilege...

New Research: We’re Still Terrible at Passwords; Making it Easy for Attackers

Passwords, amirite? We all have them. Probably a lot of them. And they are among the most important lines of defense against nefarious attackers seeking access to our online accounts. Sadly, as we all know too well, password health isn’t exactly our collective strong suit and too often we hear...

[The Lost Bots] S02E05: The real magic in the Magic Quadrant

!\The Lost Bots\ S02E05: The real magic in the Magic Quadranthttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png In this episode, we discuss the best use of market research reports, like Magic Quadrants and Waves. If you're in the market for a new cybersecurity solution, d...

Hands-On IoT Hacking: Rapid7 at DEF CON 30 IoT Village, Part 1

Rapid7 was back this year at DEF CON 30 participating at the IoT Village with another hands-on hardware hacking exercise, with the goal of teaching attendees' various concepts and methods for IoT hacking. Over the years, these exercises have covered several different embedded device topics,...

FLEXlm and Citrix ADM Denial of Service Vulnerability

Note: Updated October 20, 2022 to clarify that this bypasses CVE-2022-27512 and not CVE-2022-27511, which has a different root cause. On June 27, 2022, Citrix released an advisory for CVE-2022-27511 and CVE-2022-27512, which affect Citrix ADM Application Delivery Management. Rapid7 investigated...

Emerging best practices for securing cloud-native environments

Globally, IT experts recognise security as the most significant barrier to cloud adoption, in part because many of the ways of securing traditional IT environments are not always applicable to cloud-native infrastructure. As a result, security teams may find themselves behind the curve and...

CVE-2022-42889: Keep Calm and Stop Saying "4Shell"

UPDATE 10/18/22: A previous version of this blog indicated that five JDK versions JDK 15+ were not impacted due to the exclusion of the Nashorn JavaScript engine. However, an updated PoC came out that uses the JEXL engine as an exploit path. If JEXL is present, the code executes successfully, so...

Addressing the Evolving Attack Surface Part 1: Modern Challenges

Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot from our customers requesting help on how to manage their evolving attack surface. As new 0days appear, new applications are spun up, and cloud instances change hourly, it can be hard for our customers to get a full view of risk into their environments. We put...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

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 ...

Cloud IAM Done Right: How LPA Helps Significantly Reduce Cloud Risk

Authored by Sanjeev Williams and Ryan Blanchard Today almost all cloud users, roles, and identities are overly permissive. This leads to repeated headlines and forensic reports of attackers leveraging weak identity postures to gain a foothold, and then moving laterally within an organization's...

A SIEM With a Pen Tester's Eye: How Offensive Security Helps Shape InsightIDR

To be great at something, you have to be a little obsessed. That's true whether you want to be a chess grandmaster, become an internationally recognized CEO, or build the best cybersecurity platform on the planet. At Rapid7, our laser-focus has always been trained on one thing: helping digital...

The Intelligent Listing: Cybersecurity Job Descriptions That Deliver

Modern job descriptions have quite the reputation for causing reactionary eye-rolling. Why? Because what used to be a couple of paragraphs – about requirements and experience for performing a cybersecurity analyst job – is actually now filled with a laundry list of criteria that make candidates...

We're Challenging Convention. Rapid7 Recognized in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM.

As the attack surface sprawls, under-resourced security teams have inherent disadvantages. Rapid7 InsightIDR enables resource constrained security teams to achieve sophisticated detection and response, with greater efficiency and efficacy. As a Challenger in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for...

[Security Nation] James Kettle of PortSwigger on Advancing Web-Attack Research

!\Security Nation\ James Kettle of PortSwigger on Advancing Web-Attack Researchhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to James Kettle of PortSwigger. Their discussion includes research for new web-attack technique...

Real-Time Risk Mitigation in Google Cloud Platform

With Google Cloud Next happening this week, there’s been some recent water cooler talk - okay, informal, ad hoc Zoom calls - where discussions about what makes Google Cloud Platform GCP unique when it comes to security. A few specific differences have popped up here and there default data...

Patch Tuesday - October 2022

The October batch of CVEs published by Microsoft includes 96 vulnerabilities, including 12 fixed earlier this month that affect the Chromium project used by their Edge browser. Top of mind for many this month is whether Microsoft would patch the two Exchange Server zero-day vulnerabilities...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Bofloader - Windows Meterpreter Gets Beacon Object File Loader Support This week brings a new and frequently requested feature to the Windows Meterpreter, the Beacon Object File loader. This new extension, bofloader, allows for users to execute Beacon Object Files as written for either Cobalt...

CVE-2022-40684: Remote Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Fortinet Firewalls, Web Proxies

Emergent threats evolve quickly, and as we learn more about this vulnerability, this blog post will evolve, too. On October 3, 2022, Fortinet released a software update that indicates then-current versions of their FortiOS firewall and FortiProxy web proxy software are vulnerable to CVE-2022-4068...

Exploitation of Unpatched Zero-Day Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (CVE-2022-41352)

Note: Zimbra release 9.0.0 P27 addressed this vulnerability on October 10, 2022. CVE-2022-41352 is an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite discovered in the wild due to active exploitation. The vulnerability is due to the method cpio in which Zimbra’s...

What's New in InsightIDR: Q3 2022 in Review

This Q3 2022 recap post takes a look at some of the latest investments we've made to InsightIDR to drive detection and response forward for your organization. 360-degree XDR and attack surface coverage with Rapid7 The Rapid7 XDR suite — flagship InsightIDR, alongside InsightConnect SOAR, and Thre...

Velociraptor Version 0.6.6: Multi-Tenant Mode and More Let You Dig Deeper at Scale Like Never Before

Rapid7 is excited to announce the release of version 0.6.6 of Velociraptor – an advanced, open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool that enhances visibility into your organization’s endpoints. After several months of development and testing, we are excited to share its powerfu...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Veritas Backup Exec Agent RCE This module kindly provided by c0rs targets the Veritas Backup Exec Agent in order to gain RCE as the system/root user. The exploit itself is actually a chain of 3 separate CVEs CVE-2021-27876, CVE-2021-27877 and CVE-2021-27878 which only makes it more impressive...

CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082: Unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server

On Thursday, September 29, a Vietnamese security firm called GTSC published information and IOCs on what they claimed was a pair of unpatched Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities being used in attacks on their customers’ environments dating back to early August 2022. The impact of...

[The Lost Bots] S02E04: Cyber's Most Dangerous Game — Threat Hunting

!\The Lost Bots\ S02E04: Cyber's Most Dangerous Game — Threat Huntinghttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/09/The-Lost-Bots-logo-large.png Welcome back to The Lost Bots! In this episode, we dive into one of our favorite topics: threat hunting. It's a subject we've talked about before, but...

The Empty SOC Shop: Where Has All the Talent Gone?

Anyone involved in hiring security analysts in the last few years is likely painfully aware of the cybersecurity skills shortage – but the talent hasn’t “gone anywhere” so much as it’s been bouncing around all over the place, looking for the highest bidder and most impactful work environment...

[Security Nation] Taki Uchiyama of Panasonic on Product Security and Incident Response

!\Security Nation\ Taki Uchiyama of Panasonic on Product Security and Incident Responsehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/09/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Taki Uchiyama about his work on Panasonic’s Product Security Incident Response...

What’s New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q3 2022 in Review

Another quarter comes to a close! While we definitely had our share of summer fun, our team continued to invest in the product, releasing features and updates like recurring coverage for enterprise technologies, performance enhancements, and more. Let’s take a look at some of the key releases in...

How to Deploy a SIEM That Actually Works

I deployed my SIEM in days, not months – here’s how you can too As an IT administrator at a highly digitized manufacturing company, I spent many sleepless nights with no visibility into the activity and security of our environment before deploying a security information and event management SIEM...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Have you built out that awesome media room? If your guilty pleasures include using a mobile device to make your home entertainment system WOW your guests, you might be using Unified Remote. I hope you are extra cautious about what devices you let on that WiFi network. A prolific community member...

One Year After IntSights Acquisition, Threat Intel’s Value Is Clear

Rapid7 Strengthens Market Position With 360-Degree XDR and Best-in-Class Threat Intelligence Offerings Time flies… and provides opportunities to establish proof points. After recently passing the one-year milestone of Rapid7’s acquisition of IntSights, the added value threat intelligence brings t...

Prioritizing XDR in 2023: Stronger Detection and Response With Less Complexity

As we get closer to closing out 2022, the talk in the market continues to swirl around extended detection and response XDR solutions. What are they? What are the benefits? Should my team adopt XDR, and if yes, how do we evaluate vendors to determine the best approach? While there continue to be...