High severity · published Mar 17, 2022
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…
7.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 42% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IA
Insight Agent · Rapid7
through 3.1.2.38 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0237
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0237
Release Notes
https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/
Exploit
https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251
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