CVE-2019-5629

HIGH

Rapid7 Insight Agent < 2.6.3 - Uncontrolled Search Path

Title source: rule

Description

Rapid7 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.

References (5)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153159/Rapid7-Windows-InsightIDR-Agent-2.6.3.14-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/13

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://bogner.sh/2019/06/local-privilege-escalation-in-rapid7s-windows-insight-idr-agent/

[Third Party Advisory] https://help.rapid7.com/insightagent/release-notes/archive/2019/05/#20190529

[Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/0

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0006

EPSS Percentile 19.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-427

Status published

Affected Products (1)

rapid7/insight_agent < 2.6.3

Timeline

Published Jul 13, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026