CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-4261
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-494
Description
Rapid7 Nexpose and InsightVM versions prior to 6.6.172 failed to reliably validate the authenticity of update contents. This failure could allow an attacker to provide a malicious update and alter the functionality of Rapid7 Nexpose. The attacker would need some pre-existing mechanism to provide a malicious update, either through a social engineering effort, privileged access to replace downloaded updates in transit, or by performing an Attacker-in-the-Middle attack on the update service itself.
Affected configurations
• rapid7 insightvm (< 6.6.172)
• rapid7 nexpose (< 6.6.172)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-494 Download of Code Without Integrity Check weakness
References
- https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightvm/20221207/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/nexpose/20221207/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2022/12/7/cve-2022-4261-rapid7-nexpose-update-validation-issue-fixed Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightvm/20221207/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/nexpose/20221207/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2022/12/7/cve-2022-4261-rapid7-nexpose-update-validation-issue-fixed Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory