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...

The State of Security Today: Setting the Stage for 2026

As we close out 2025, one thing is clear: the security landscape is evolving faster than most organizations can keep up. From surging ransomware campaigns and AI-enhanced phishing to data extortion, geopolitical fallout, and gaps in cyber readiness, the challenges facing security teams today are ...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 11/14/2025

It has “SUS” in the name, what did you expect? This week’s release features the much-hyped CVE-2025-59287, a Critical-Severity Windows Server Update Service WSUS vulnerability that allows for SYSTEM level remote code execution. Documented among the multiple recent zero-days in Windows, the...

Threat Landscape of the Building and Construction Sector Part Two: Ransomware

In this second installment of our two-part series on the construction industry, Rapid7 is looking at the specific threat ransomware poses, why the industry is particularly vulnerable, and ways in which threat actors exploit its weaknesses to great effect. You can catch up on the first part here:...

CVE-2025-64446: Critical Vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb Exploited in the Wild

Overview On October 6, 2025, the cyber deception company Defused published a proof-of-concept exploit on social media that was captured by one of their Fortinet FortiWeb Manager honeypots. FortiWeb is a Web Application Firewall WAF product that is designed to detect and block malicious traffic to...

Attackers accelerate, adapt, and automate: Rapid7’s Q3 2025 Threat Landscape Report

The Q3 2025 Threat Landscape Report, authored by the Rapid7 Labs team, paints a clear picture of an environment where attackers are moving faster, working smarter, and using artificial intelligence to stay ahead of defenders. The findings reveal a threat landscape defined by speed, coordination,...

Patch Tuesday - November 2025

Microsoft is publishing 66 new vulnerabilities today, which is far fewer than we’ve come to expect in recent months. There’s a lone exploited-in-the-wild zero-day vulnerability, which Microsoft assesses as critical severity, although there’s apparently no public disclosure yet. Three critical...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 11/07/2025

New module content 3 Centreon authenticated command injection leading to RCE via broker engine "reload" parameter Author: h00die-gr3y [email protected] Type: Exploit Pull request: 20672 contributed by h00die-gr3y Path: linux/http/centreonauthrcecve20255946 AttackerKB reference: CVE-2025-5946...

Threat Landscape of the Building and Construction Sector, Part One: Initial Access, Supply Chain, and the Internet of Things

In 2025, the construction industry stands at the crossroads of digital transformation and evolving cybersecurity risks, making it a prime target for threat actors. Cyber adversaries, including ransomware operators, organized cybercriminal networks, and state-sponsored APT groups from countries su...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/31/2025

New module content 3 ReDoc API Docs UI Exposed Author: Hamza Sahin Type: Auxiliary Pull request: 20594 contributed by HamzaSahin61 Path: scanner/http/redocexposed Description: Adds a module to detect publicly exposed ReDoc API documentation pages using read-only HTTP GET requests searching for...

When AI Accelerates Cloud Migrations, Don't Let Security Be an Afterthought

The era of on-premises infrastructure is quickly becoming a thing of the past, with research from Pluralsight showing that over 90% of organizations now leverage the cloud. What’s driving the even faster shift over the last few years? Consider AWS's foray into generative AI programs and agents fo...

Salt Typhoon APT Group: What Public Sector Leaders and Defenders Should Know

The Rapid7 Threat Focus: Salt Typhoon report profiles one of the most sophisticated and persistent state-sponsored threat actors operating today. Salt Typhoon, a Chinese espionage advanced persistent threat APT group linked to the Ministry of State Security MSS, has spent years infiltrating globa...

Defend Smarter, Not Harder: The Power of Curated Vulnerability Intelligence

Let’s be honest, we as an industry spend far too long responding to issues that simply don’t matter. Chasing down false positives, reviewing threat intelligence reports that bear no relation to our sector, and more recently reviewing vulnerability advisories of systems not deployed within the...

Key Emerging Cybersecurity Threats and Challenges for 2025 and Beyond

The global threat landscape is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. Organizations are facing dizzying levels of complexity, driven by rapid technological innovation, the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, and the expected disruptive effects of quantum computing. At the same...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/24/2025

Let us suggest persistence… This week's edition brings the new persistence suggester from h00die. Similar to the exploit variant, this module will list the available persistence mechanisms for your selected target. The module requires a session to target the machine, so it can run check methods...

Rapid7 at Pwn2Own: Raising the Bar in Vuln Intel

As the 2025 edition of Pwn2Own Ireland draws to a close, we are taking a beat to reflect on Rapid7’s participation and achievements, both this year and last, in the world of competitive zero day exploit development. Pwn2Own is a zero day exploit competition run by the Zero Day Initiative ZDI and...

Independent Results Confirm Rapid7’s NGAV Delivers Strong, Reliable Protection

At Rapid7, we measure success by how well we protect our customers in the real world. That’s why independent testing like the AV-Comparatives Business Security Test matters. It’s a trusted benchmark for how endpoint security products perform against today’s constantly evolving threats, and how th...

Metasploit Wrap-Up 10/17/2025

New module content 1 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in MotionEye Frontend CVE-2025-60787 Authors: Maksim Rogov and prabhatverma47 Type: Exploit Pull request: 20585 contributed by vognik Path: linux/http/motioneyeauthrcecve202560787 AttackerKB reference: CVE-2025-60787 Description: Adds a...