CVE-2017-5242

Rapid7 Nexpose Virtual Appliance Duplicate SSH Host Key

State: Published
Severity: 7.7 High
Published: Jan 12, 2023
Updated: Apr 8, 2025
Reserved: Jan 9, 2017

Description

Nexpose and InsightVM virtual appliances downloaded between April 5th, 2017 and May 3rd, 2017 contain identical SSH host keys. Normally, a unique SSH host key should be generated the first time a virtual appliance boots.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-321 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Nexpose Virtual ApplianceRapid7	2017.04.05 to before 2017.04.05*Affected 2017.05.03 through 2017.05.03Affected
InsightVM Virtual ApplianceRapid7	2017.04.05 to before 2017.04.05*Affected 2017.05.03 through 2017.05.03Affected

References

https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2017/05/17/rapid7-nexpose-virtual-appliance-duplicate-ssh-host-key-cve-2017-5242/

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