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CVE-2022-0237: Rapid7 Insight Agent Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-03-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

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.

Affected products

• Rapid7 Insight Agent: through 3.1.2.38

References

• https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/
• https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251
• https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/
• https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251

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