Vulnerability · Published Mar 17, 2022 · Assigned by rapid7

CVE-2022-0237Rapid7 Insight Agent Privilege Escalation

Medium 4.0

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Insight Agent from Rapid7. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 42% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.0Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 58.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Rapid7	Insight Agent	3.1.2.38 – through 3.1.2.38

Weakness: CWE-264 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251 x_refsource_MISC