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GHSA-HVMW-5H37-J7F5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-12-08 00:30 – Updated: 2022-12-12 18:30

Details

Rapid7 Nexpose versions prior to 6.6.172 failed to reliably validate the authenticity of update contents. This failure could allow an attacker to provide a malicious update and alter the functionality of Rapid7 Nexpose. The attacker would need some pre-existing mechanism to provide a malicious update, either through a social engineering effort, privileged access to replace downloaded updates in transit, or by performing an Attacker-in-the-Middle attack on the update service itself.

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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CVE-2022-4261 (GCVE-0-2022-4261)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-14 17:57

Summary

Rapid7 Nexpose and InsightVM versions prior to 6.6.172 failed to reliably validate the authenticity of update contents. This failure could allow an attacker to provide a malicious update and alter the functionality of Rapid7 Nexpose. The attacker would need some pre-existing mechanism to provide a malicious update, either through a social engineering effort, privileged access to replace downloaded updates in transit, or by performing an Attacker-in-the-Middle attack on the update service itself.

Severity ?

4.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE

CWE-494 - Download of Code Without Integrity Check

Assigner

rapid7

References

URL

Tags

	https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/nexpose/20221207/
	https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2022/12/7/cve-20…
	https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightvm/2…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Rapid7

Nexpose

Affected: 0 , ≤ 6.6.171 (semver)

Rapid7

InsightVM

Affected: 0 , ≤ 6.6.171 (semver)

Credits

Emmett Kelly, Rapid7 Principal Software Engineer

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GHSA-HVMW-5H37-J7F5

CVE-2022-4261 (GCVE-0-2022-4261)

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