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CVE-2023-2273: Rapid7 Insight Agent Directory Traversal

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Rapid7 Insight Agent token handler versions 3.2.6 and below, suffer from a Directory Traversal vulnerability whereby unsanitized input from a CLI argument flows into io.ioutil.WriteFile, where it is used as a path. This can result in a Path Traversal vulnerability and allow an attacker to write arbitrary files. This issue is remediated in version 3.3.0 via safe guards that reject inputs that attempt to do path traversal.

Affected products

• Rapid7 Insight Agent: before 3.3.0 — fixed in 3.3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Rapid7 Insight Agent 3.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20230425/
• https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20230425/

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