CVE-2022-31749: WatchGuard Authenticated Arbitrary File Read/Write (Fixed)

A remote and low-privileged WatchGuard Firebox or XTM user can read arbitrary system files when using the SSH interface due to an argument injection vulnerability affecting the diagnose command. Additionally, a remote and highly privileged user can write arbitrary system files when using the SSH...

Two Rapid7 Solutions Take Top Honors at SC Awards Europe

LONDON—We are pleased to announce that two Rapid7 solutions were recognized on Tuesday, June 21, at the prestigious SC Awards Europe, which were presented at the London Marriott, Grosvenor Square. InsightIDR took the top spot in the Best SIEM Solution category, and Threat Command brought home the...

Rapid7 MDR Delivered 549% ROI via Headcount Avoidance, Time Savings, and Breach Risk Reduction

In-house security organizations these days are operating at an extreme deficit. Skeleton crews are running entire security operations centers SOCs. A constant barrage of alerts is making it difficult for these teams to detect and investigate every alert and stay ahead of today’s evolving threats...

[Security Nation] Steve Micallef of SpiderFoot on Open-Source Intelligence

!\Security Nation\ Steve Micallef of SpiderFoot on Open-Source Intelligencehttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/06/securitynationlogo-1.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Steve Micallef about SpiderFoot, the open-source intelligence tool of which he is the creato...

How to Secure App Development in the Cloud, With Tips From Gartner

Building applications in the cloud has been great for development speed and scalability, but it can sometimes feel more like a sustained migraine for security teams. How do you keep your cloud applications safe without resorting to a dizzying patchwork of overlapping tools and dispersed services?...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

vCenter Secret Extracter Expanding on the work of the vcenterforgesamltoken auxiliary module, community contributor npm-cesium137-io has added a new module for extracting the vmdir/vmafd certificates, the IdP keypair, the VMCA root cert, and anything from vmafd that has a private key associated,...

4 Strategies to Help Your Cybersecurity Budget Work Harder

The digital economy is being disrupted by data. An estimated 79 zettabytes of data was created and consumed in 2021— a staggering amount that is reshaping how we do business. But as the volume and value of data increases, so does the motivation for hackers to steal it. As such, cybersecurity is a...

CVE-2022-27511: Citrix ADM Remote Device Takeover

On Monday, June 14, 2022, Citrix published an advisory on CVE-2022-27511, a critical improper access control vulnerability affecting their Application Delivery Management ADM product. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can leverage CVE-2022-27511 to reset administrator credentials to the default...

Security Is Shifting in a Cloud-Native World: Insights From RSAC 2022

The cloud has become the default for IT infrastructure and resource delivery, allowing an unprecedented level of speed and flexibility for development and production pipelines. This helps organizations compete and innovate in a fast-paced business environment. But as the cloud becomes more...

New Report Shows What Data Is Most at Risk to (and Prized by) Ransomware Attackers

Ransomware is one of the most pressing and diabolical threats faced by cybersecurity teams today. Gaining access to a network and holding that data for ransom has caused billions in losses across nearly every industry and around the world. It has stopped critical infrastructure like healthcare...

Complimentary GartnerⓇ Report "How to Respond to the 2022 Cyberthreat Landscape": Ransomware Edition

First things first — if you're a member of a cybersecurity team bouncing from one stressful identify vulnerability, patch, repeat cycle to another, claim your copy of the GartnerⓇ report “How to Respond to the 2022 Cyberthreat Landscape" right now. It will help you understand the current landscap...

Patch Tuesday - June 2022

June's Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft releasing fixes for over 60 CVEs. Top of mind for many administrators this month is CVE-2022-30190, also known as Follina, which was observed being exploited in the wild at the end of May. Microsoft provided mitigation instructions disabling the MSDT URL protoc...

CVE-2022-32230: Windows SMB Denial-of-Service Vulnerability (FIXED)

A remote and unauthenticated attacker can trigger a denial-of-service condition on Microsoft Windows Domain Controllers by leveraging a flaw that leads to a null pointer deference within the Windows kernel. We believe this vulnerability would be scored as CVSSv3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:...

Defending Against Tomorrow's Threats: Insights From RSAC 2022

The rapidly changing pace of the cyberthreat landscape is on every security pro's mind. Not only do organizations need to secure complex cloud environments, they're also more aware than ever that their software supply chains and open-source elements of their application codebase might not be as...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

A Confluence of High-Profile Modules This release features modules covering the Confluence remote code execution bug CVE-2022-26134 and the hotly-debated CVE-2022-30190, a file format vulnerability in the Windows Operating System accessible through malicious documents. Both have been all over the...

[VIDEO] An Inside Look at the RSA 2022 Experience From the Rapid7 Team​

!\VIDEO\ An Inside Look at the RSA 2022 Experience From the Rapid7 Team​https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/06/RSAC-2022-experience.jpg The two years since the last RSA Conference have been pretty uneventful. Sure, COVID-19 sent us all to work from home for a little while, but it's not as...

Announcing Metasploit 6.2

Metasploit 6.2.0 has been released, marking another milestone that includes new modules, features, improvements, and bug fixes. Since Metasploit 6.1.0 August 2021 until the latest Metasploit 6.2.0 release we’ve added: 138 new modules 148 enhancements and features 156 bug fixes Top modules Each...

[Security Nation] Phillip Maddux on HoneyDB, the Open-Source Honeypot Data Project

!\Security Nation\ Phillip Maddux on HoneyDB, the Open-Source Honeypot Data Projecthttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/06/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Phillip Maddux about his project HoneyDB, a site that pulls data together from honeypo...

Identifying Cloud Waste to Contain Unnecessary Costs

Cloud adoption has exploded over the past decade or so, and for good reason. Many digital transformation advancements – and even the complete reimagination of entire industries – can be directly mapped and attributed to cloud innovation. While this rapid pace of innovation has had a profound impa...

The Hidden Harm of Silent Patches

Hey all. I'm about to head off to RSAC 2022, but I wanted to jot down some thoughts I've had lately on a particularly squirrelly issue that comes up occasionally in coordinated vulnerability disclosure CVD — the issue of silent patches, and how they tend to help focused attackers and harm IT...

Evaluating the Security of an Enterprise IoT Deployment at Domino's Pizza

Recently, I had a great opportunity to work with Domino's Pizza to evaluate an internally conceived Internet of Things IoT-based business solution they had designed and deployed throughout their US store locations. The goal of this research project was to understand the security implications arou...

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,...

Cybersecurity Is More Than a Checklist: Joel Yonts on Tech’s Unfair Disadvantage

Breaches caused by misconfigurations are alarmingly common. Over a third of all cyberattacks in 2020 were the result of firewall, cloud, and server misconfigurations. The tech industry is at the highest risk of bad actors taking advantage of these preventable vulnerabilities, with the information...

Active Exploitation of Confluence CVE-2022-26134

On June 2, 2022, Atlassian published a security advisory for CVE-2022-26134, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center. The vulnerability was unpatched when it was published on June 2. As of June 3, both patches and a temporary...

The Average SIEM Deployment Takes 6 Months. Don’t Be Average.

If you’re part of the huge growth in demand for cloud-based SIEM Security Information and Event Management, claim your copy of the new Gartner® Report: “How to Deploy a SIEM Solution Successfully.” Depending on what SIEM you choose, and how you approach the process, getting to operational and...

CVE-2022-30190: "Follina" Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool Vulnerability

On May 30, 2022, Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC published a blog on CVE-2022-30190, an unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool msdt in Windows. Microsoft’s advisory on CVE-2022-30190 indicates that exploitation has been detected in the wild. According to Microsof...

3 Takeaways From the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

Sometimes, data surprises you. When it does, it can force you to rethink your assumptions and second-guess the way you look at the world. But other times, data can reaffirm your assumptions, giving you hard proof they're the right ones — and providing increased motivation to act decisively based ...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

PetitPotam Improvements Metasploit’s Ruby support has been updated to allow anonymous authentication to SMB servers. This is notably useful while exploiting the PetitPotam vulnerability with Metasploit, which can be used to coerce a Domain Controller to send an authentication attempt over SMB to...

The Forecast Is Flipped: Flipping L&D Enables Managers to Be Impact Multipliers

At Rapid7, we recognize that managers are at the heart of our mission and are central to optimizing the potential of our people. So naturally, focusing on the growth and development of our manager population became critical to productivity, engagement, retention, and creating strong teams, as wel...

The Rapid7 Sales Culture and Experience: An Inside Look From 2 VPs

Sales roles are all about people. That holds true not only when you're building relationships with prospects but also in your day-to-day experience on the team. Having the right culture and people around you can make or break your success, satisfaction, and long-term growth. If you're a job seeke...

[Security Nation] Omer Akgul and Richard Roberts on YouTube VPN Ads

!\Security Nation\ Omer Akgul and Richard Roberts on YouTube VPN Adshttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/05/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with academics Omer Akgul and Richard Roberts about their recent paper, “Investigating Influencer VPN Ads ...

What It Takes to Securely Scale Cloud Environments at Tech Companies Today

In January 2021, foreign trade marketing platform SocialArks was the target of a massive cyberattack. Security Magazine reported that the rapidly growing startup experienced a breach of over 214 million social media profiles and 400GB of data, exposing users' names, phone numbers, email addresses...

CVE-2022-22977: VMware Guest Authentication Service LPE (FIXED)

A low-privileged local attacker can prevent the VMware Guest Authentication service VGAuthService.exe from running in a guest Windows environment and can crash this service, thus rendering the guest unstable. In some very contrived circumstances, the attacker can leak file content to which they d...

A Year on from the Ransomware Task Force Report

If you follow cybersecurity, you’ve likely seen one of the many articles written recently on the one-year anniversary of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which saw fuel delivery suspended for six days, disrupting air and road travel across the southeastern states of the US. The Colonial...

DFIR Without Limits: Moving Beyond the “Sucker's Choice” of Today’s Breach Response Services

Three-quarters of CEOs and their boards believe a major breach is “inevitable.” And those closest to the action? Like CISOs? They’re nearly unanimous. Gartner is right there, too. Their 2021 Market Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident Response DFIR Services recommends you “operate under the...

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...

Are You in the 2.5% Who Meet This Cybersecurity Job Requirement?

Of course you’re special. So are we. But decades of research tells us humans believe they’re good multitaskers – and we are really, seriously not. It seems a measly 2.5% of us can multitask well. The rest of us are best when we focus on a single goal, allowing the left and right sides of our brai...

CVE-2022-22972: Critical Authentication Bypass in VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager, and vRealize Automation

On May 18, 2022, VMware published VMSA-2022-0014 on CVE-2022-22972 and CVE-2022-22973. The more severe of the two vulnerabilities is CVE-2022-22972, a critical authentication bypass affecting VMware’s Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager, and vRealize Automation solutions. The vulnerability...

Find, Fix, and Report ​OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities in InsightAppSec

With the release of the new 2021 OWASP Top 10 late last year, OWASP made some fundamental and impactful changes to its ubiquitous reference framework. We published a high-level breakdown of the changes, followed by some deep dives into specific types of threats that made the new Top 10. But the...

Maximize Your VM Investment: Fix Vulnerabilities Faster With Automox + Rapid7

The Rapid7 InsightConnect Extension library is getting bigger! We’ve teamed up with IT operations platform, Automox, to release a new plugin and technology alliance that closes the aperture of attack for vulnerability findings and automates remediation. Using the Automox Plugin for Rapid7...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Spring4Shell module Community contributor vleminator added a new module which exploits CVE-2022-22965—more commonly known as "Spring4Shell." Depending on its deployment configuration, Java Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 to 5.3.17, 5.2.0 to 5.2.19, and older can be vulnerable to unauthenticated...

Update for CIS Google Cloud Platform Foundation Benchmarks - Version 1.3.0

The Center for Internet Security CIS recently released an updated version of their Google Cloud Platform Foundation Benchmarks - Version 1.3.0. Expanding on previous iterations, the update adds 21 new benchmarks covering best practices for securing Google Cloud environments. The updates were broa...

CVE-2022-30525 (FIXED): Zyxel Firewall Unauthenticated Remote Command Injection

Rapid7 discovered and reported a vulnerability that affects Zyxel firewalls supporting Zero Touch Provisioning ZTP, which includes the ATP series, VPN series, and the USG FLEX series including USG20-VPN and USG20W-VPN. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-30525, allows an unauthenticated and...

[Security Nation] Jim O’Gorman and g0tmi1k on Kali Linux

!\Security Nation\ Jim O’Gorman and g0tmi1k on Kali Linuxhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/05/securitynationlogo--1-.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod sit down with Jim O’Gorman and Ben “g0tmi1k” Wilson of Offensive Security to chat about Kali Linux. They walk our host...

Patch Tuesday - May 2022

This month is par for the course in terms of both number and severity of vulnerabilities being patched by Microsoft. That means there’s plenty of work to be done by system and network administrators, as usual. There is one 0-day this month: CVE-2022-26925, a Spoofing vulnerability in the Windows...

What's Changed for Cybersecurity in Banking and Finance: New Study

Cybersecurity in financial services is a complex picture. Not only has a range of new tech hit the industry in the last 5 years, but compliance requirements introduce another layer of difficulty to the lives of infosec teams in this sector. To add to this picture, the overall cybersecurity...

Active Exploitation of F5 BIG-IP iControl REST CVE-2022-1388

On May 4, 2022, F5 released an advisory listing several vulnerabilities, including CVE-2022-1388, a critical authentication bypass that leads to remote code execution in iControl REST with a CVSSv3 base score of 9.8. The vulnerability affects several different versions of BIG-IP prior to 17.0.0,...

[Infographic] Cloud Misconfigurations: Don't Become a Breach Statistic

!\Infographic\ Cloud Misconfigurations: Don't Become a Breach Statistichttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/05/miconfigurations-infographic-clip2.jpg No one wants their company to be named in the latest headline-grabbing data breach. Luckily, there are steps you can take to keep your...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

VMware Workspace ONE Access RCE Community contributor wvu has developed a new Metasploit Module which exploits CVE-2022-22954, an unauthenticated server-side template injection SSTI in VMware Workspace ONE Access, to execute shell commands as the ‘horizon’ user. This module has a CVSSv3 base scor...

Unsung Security Superheroes: You’re Now Sung

Get your copy of Rapid7’s first comic: XDR vs. Exploito. Available now! We’re all more connected than ever, and security practitioners keep everyone – governments, organizations, businesses, and 4.95 billion people – as safe as they can be. “XDR vs Exploito” isn’t “Dr. Strange and the Multiverse ...