CVE-2022-4261

Rapid7 Nexpose Update Validation Issue

State
Published
Severity
4.4 Medium
Published
Dec 7, 2022
Updated
Apr 14, 2025
Reserved
Dec 1, 2022

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nrapid7

Weaknesses

  • CWE-494 Download of Code Without Integrity Check

Affected Products

ProductVersions
NexposeRapid7
  • 6.6.171 and earlierAffected
InsightVMRapid7
  • 6.6.171 and earlierAffected

References

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