CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-5629
Rapid7 Insight Agent, version 2.6.3 and prior, suffers from a local privilege escalation due to an uncontrolled DLL search path. Specifically, when Insight Agent 2.6.3 and prior starts, the Python interpreter attempts to load python3.dll at "C:\DLLs\python3.dll," which normally is writable by locally authenticated users. Because of this, a malicious local user could use Insight Agent's startup conditions to elevate to SYSTEM privileges. This issue was fixed in Rapid7 Insight Agent 2.6.4.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 60% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-427
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- rapid7:insight_agent
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153159/Rapid7-Windows-InsightIDR-Agent-2.6.3.14-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/13
- https://bogner.sh/2019/06/local-privilege-escalation-in-rapid7s-windows-insight-idr-agent/
- https://help.rapid7.com/insightagent/release-notes/archive/2019/05/#20190529
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/0