CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-4007
High (7.8) in rapid7 insight agent. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Rapid7 Insight Agent, versions 3.0.1 to 3.1.2.34, suffer from a local privilege escalation due to an uncontrolled DLL search path. Specifically, when Insight Agent versions 3.0.1 to 3.1.2.34 start, 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 3.1.2.35. This vulnerability is a regression of CVE-2019-5629.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 26% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-427
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- rapid7:insight_agent