Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.

CVE-2022-0237 Details

Description

Rapid7 Insight Agent versions 3.1.2.38 and earlier suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability, whereby an attacker can hijack the flow of execution due to an unquoted argument to the runas.exe command used by the ir_agent.exe component, resulting in elevated rights and persistent access to the machine. This issue was fixed in Rapid7 Insight Agent version 3.1.3.80.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:4 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/	CVE	Release NotesVendor Advisory
https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251	CVE	ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/	[email protected]	Release NotesVendor Advisory
https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251	[email protected]	ExploitThird Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-428	Unquoted Search Path or Element	[email protected]
CWE-264	Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
rapid7 insight agent	<= 3.1.2.38
CPE cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:insight_agent:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

4 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Mar 24, 2022	Initial Analysis	[email protected]