CVE-2024-11401: Rapid7 Insight Platform Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

Rapid7 Insight Platform versions prior to November 13th 2024, suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability whereby, due to a lack of authorization checks, an attacker can successfully update the password policy in the platform settings as a standard user by crafting an API (the functionality was not possible through the platform's User Interface). This vulnerability has been fixed as of November 13th 2024.

Affected products

Rapid7 Insight Platform: before Novemeber 13th

References

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html

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