CVE-2022-0237
MEDIUMRapid7 Insight Agent <3.1.2.38 - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251
Scores
CVSS v3
4.0
EPSS
0.0045
EPSS Percentile
35.8%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-428
CWE-264
Status
published
Products (1)
rapid7/insight_agent
< 3.1.2.38
Published
Mar 17, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026