Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Dec 8, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-4261
CVE-2022-4261
Description
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.
Affected products
6Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2022/12/7/cve-2022-4261-rapid7-nexpose-update-validation-issue-fixednvdExploitMitigationVendor Advisory
- docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightvm/20221207/nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/nexpose/20221207/nvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
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