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CVE-2026-14172

Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and Insight Agent Local Privilege Escalation via Unvalidated Executable Invocation PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and the Insight Agent execute discovered executables during authenticated assessment without validating file ownership, allowing a local low-privileged user to run code as the scan credential (Scan Engine) or as root/SYSTEM (Insight Agent). Fixed in Scan Engine content 1.1.3935 and Insight Agent content component 0.0.245.0.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Rapid7 / InsightVMaffected 0 before 1.1.3935
Rapid7 / Nexposeaffected 0 before 1.1.3935
Rapid7 / Insight Agentaffected 0 before 0.0.245.0

CWE

CWE-250

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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