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CVE-2019-5642 (GCVE-0-2019-5642)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-06 18:30 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:24
VLAI
Title
MAGICK
Summary
Rapid7 Metasploit Pro version 4.16.0-2019081901 and prior suffers from an instance of CWE-732, wherein the unique server.key is written to the file system during installation with world-readable permissions. This can allow other users of the same system where Metasploit Pro is installed to intercept otherwise private communications to the Metasploit Pro web interface.
Severity
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Rapid7 Metasploit Pro Affected: unspecified , ≤ 4.16.0-2019081901 (custom)
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Date Public
2019-09-12 00:00
Credits
This issue was discovered and reported to Rapid7 by Rodney Beele. It is being disclosed in accordance with Rapid7's vulnerability disclosure policy (https://www.rapid7.com/disclosure/).
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