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CVE-2024-3185: Rapid7 Insight Agent Sensitive Key Exposed To Local Users

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1284

Description

A key used in logging.json does not follow the least privilege principle by default and is exposed to local users in the Rapid7 Platform. This allows an attacker with local access to a machine with the logging.json file to use that key to authenticate to the platform with high privileges. This was fixed in the Rapid7 platform starting 3 April 2024 via the introduction of a restricted role and the removal of automatic API key generation on installation of an agent.

Affected products

• Rapid7 InsightVM: before 6.6.245 — fixed in 6.6.245

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Rapid7 InsightVM 6.6.245. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.rapid7.com/insightidr/configure-the-insight-agent-to-send-logs/
• https://docs.rapid7.com/insightidr/configure-the-insight-agent-to-send-logs/

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