Medium severity4.0NVD Advisory· Published Mar 17, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-0237
CVE-2022-0237
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.
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Affected products
3cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:insight_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:insight_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=3.1.2.38
- (no CPE)range: <=3.1.2.38, >=3.1.3.80
- (no CPE)range: 3.1.2.38
Patches
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References
2- gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
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