Vulnerability CVE-2022-0237


Published: 2022-03-17   Modified: 2022-03-18

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.

Type:

CWE-428

(Unquoted Search Path or Element)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Rapid7 -> Insight agent 

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

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