CVE-2022-0237

low-risk
Published 2022-03-17

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.06% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 4.0/10 Medium
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Insight Agent

Affected Vendors

Rapid7

References (4)

Release Notes https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/
Exploit https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251
Release Notes https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/
Exploit https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251
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low-risk
Severity 14/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal