Rapid7 Insight Agent Privilege Escalation
CVE-2022-0237

4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Rapid7

Status
Insight Agent
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 March 2022

What is CVE-2022-0237?

Rapid7 Insight Agent versions 3.1.2.38 and earlier suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability, whereby an attacker can hijack the flow of execution due to an unquoted argument to the runas.exe command used by the ir_agent.exe component, resulting in elevated rights and persistent access to the machine. This issue was fixed in Rapid7 Insight Agent version 3.1.3.80.

Affected Version(s)

Insight Agent 3.1.2.38

References

https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/
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https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7a...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
None
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Ryan Schachtschneider
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