CVE-2022-0237

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.0
Exploit probability—
ProductRapid7 Insight Agent
PublishedMar 17, 2022
First seenMar 17, 2022
Weakness typeCWE-264CWE-264

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
rapid7 insight_agentv ≤ 3.1.2.38—

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CVE-2022-0237 · Rapid7 Insight Agent · Dark Radar