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FKIE_CVE-2019-5629

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-07-13 01:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:37

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Rapid7 Insight Agent, version 2.6.3 and prior, suffers from a local privilege escalation due to an uncontrolled DLL search path. Specifically, when Insight Agent 2.6.3 and prior starts, the Python interpreter attempts to load python3.dll at "C:\DLLs\python3.dll," which normally is writable by locally authenticated users. Because of this, a malicious local user could use Insight Agent's startup conditions to elevate to SYSTEM privileges. This issue was fixed in Rapid7 Insight Agent 2.6.4.

References

URL	Tags
cve@rapid7.com	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153159/Rapid7-Windows-InsightIDR-Agent-2.6.3.14-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@rapid7.com	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/13	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@rapid7.com	https://bogner.sh/2019/06/local-privilege-escalation-in-rapid7s-windows-insight-idr-agent/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@rapid7.com	https://help.rapid7.com/insightagent/release-notes/archive/2019/05/#20190529	Third Party Advisory
cve@rapid7.com	https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/0	Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153159/Rapid7-Windows-InsightIDR-Agent-2.6.3.14-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/13	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bogner.sh/2019/06/local-privilege-escalation-in-rapid7s-windows-insight-idr-agent/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://help.rapid7.com/insightagent/release-notes/archive/2019/05/#20190529	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/0	Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	rapid7	insight_agent	*

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CVE-2019-5629 (GCVE-0-2019-5629)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-07-13 00:15 – Updated: 2024-09-16 22:45

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Assigner

rapid7 mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/0	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153159/Rapid…	x_refsource_MISC
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/13	mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
https://help.rapid7.com/insightagent/release-note…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bogner.sh/2019/06/local-privilege-escalat…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Rapid7	Insight Agent	Affected: 2.6.3 and prior

Date Public

2019-05-29 00:00

Credits

This issue was discovered, and reported to Rapid7, by independent researcher Florian Bogner at Bee IT Security. It is being disclosed in accordance with Rapid7's vulnerability disclosure policy (https://www.rapid7.com/disclosure/).

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