CVE-2022-0237

Summary

CVECVE-2022-0237
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-03-17 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-03-24 19:21:00 UTC
DescriptionRapid7 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-428

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rapid7 Insight Agent All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Rapid7-Insight-Agent-runas.md · GitHub MISC gist.github.com
Insight Agent Release Notes CONFIRM docs.rapid7.com
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: Ryan Schachtschneider

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