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TI-2024-02985 Aliases CVE-2024-3185GHSA-v55p-hqx9-66gf

Rapid7 Insight Agent Sensitive Key Exposed To Local Users

Priority HIGH 65CWE-1284Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00172 6th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Rapid7Insight Agentup to 2024-04-03T12:00:00:000Z—No fix listedCNA
  • Insight Agent VendorRapid7 Affected up to 2024-04-03T12:00:00:000Z Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE names CISA-ADP · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:insightvm:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*not specified by CISA-ADP—Rapid7
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:insightvm:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions not specified by CISA-ADP — ·Rapid7

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-3185
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-v55p-hqx9-66gf

References

Other 1

  • TI-2023-01233 Rapid7 InsightCloudSec resource.db() method access CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2023-01231 Rapid7 InsightCloudSec getattr() method access CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2023-01232 Rapid7 InsightCloudSec box object access CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2024-00358 Rapid7 Minerva Armor Privilege Escalation CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2019-04008 Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP Handler Denial of Service CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2020-05967 Client-Side Command Injection in Rapid7 Metasploit CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
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Sources

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