CVE-2019-5629

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-5629
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-07-13 01:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-10-16 15:10:00 UTC
DescriptionRapid7 Insight Agent, version 2.6.3 and prior, suffers from a local privilege escalation due to an uncontrolled DLL search path. Specifically, when Insight Agent 2.6.3 and prior starts, the Python interpreter attempts to load python3.dll at "C:\DLLs\python3.dll," which normally is writable by locally authenticated users. Because of this, a malicious local user could use Insight Agent's startup conditions to elevate to SYSTEM privileges. This issue was fixed in Rapid7 Insight Agent 2.6.4.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-427

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rapid7 Insight Agent All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Insight Agent Release Notes Archive - May 2019 CONFIRM help.rapid7.com Third Party Advisory
Bugtraq: Rapid7’s Windows InsightIDR Agent: Local Privilege Escalation BUGTRAQ seclists.org Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Rapid7 Windows InsightIDR Agent 2.6.3.14 Local Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Local Privilege Escalation in Rapid7’s Windows Insight IDR Agent » #bogner.sh MISC bogner.sh Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: Rapid7’s Windows InsightIDR Agent: Local Privilege Escalation FULLDISC seclists.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: This issue was discovered, and reported to Rapid7, by independent researcher Florian Bogner at Bee IT Security. It is being disclosed in accordance with Rapid7's vulnerability disclosure policy (https://www.rapid7.com/disclosure/).

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