CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-5242

7.7 HIGH Published 2023-01-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-01-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-321, CWE-330

Description

Nexpose and InsightVM virtual appliances downloaded between April 5th, 2017 and May 3rd, 2017 contain identical SSH host keys. Normally, a unique SSH host key should be generated the first time a virtual appliance boots.

Affected configurations

• rapid7 insightvm (>= 2017-04-05 <= 2017-05-03)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-321 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key weakness
  • CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values weakness

References