Vulnerability · Published Dec 11, 2024 · Assigned by rapid7

CVE-2024-11401Rapid7 Insight Platform Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity missing authorization in Insight Platform from Rapid7. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 27% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 72.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Rapid7 Insight Platform versions prior to November 13th 2024, suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability whereby, due to a lack of authorization checks, an attacker can successfully update the password policy in the platform settings as a standard user by crafting an API (the functionality was not possible through the platform's User Interface). This vulnerability has been fixed as of November 13th 2024.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Rapid7	Insight Platform	Before Novemeber 13th

Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html