CVE-2022-0237

Rapid7 Insight Agent Privilege Escalation

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: March 17, 2022 at 10:30 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:20 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorInsight Agent

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (2)

x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease NotesVendor Advisory
https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264CWE-428

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