PT-2019-17789 · Rapid7 · Rapid7 Insight Agent

Florian Bogner · Published 2019-07-13 · Updated 2021-12-14 · CVE-2019-5629

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Rapid7 Insight Agent versions 2.6.3 and prior

Description The issue is related to an uncontrolled DLL search path, allowing a malicious local user to elevate to SYSTEM privileges. This occurs when the Python interpreter attempts to load python3.dll from a writable location, specifically "C:DLLspython3.dll".

Recommendations For Rapid7 Insight Agent versions 2.6.3 and prior, update to version 2.6.4 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-427

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-5629

Affected Products

Rapid7 Insight Agent

References · 8

• 🔥 https://bogner.sh/2019/06/local-privilege-escalation-in-rapid7s-windows-insight-idr-agent · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-5629 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5629 · Security Note
• https://help.rapid7.com/insightagent/release-notes/archive/2019/05/#20190529 · Note
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/0 · Note
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153159/Rapid7-Windows-InsightIDR-Agent-2.6.3.14-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/33934 · Telegram Post
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/13 · Note