CVE-2022-4261 Information

Description

Rapid7 Nexpose and InsightVM versions prior to 6.6.172 failed to reliably validate the authenticity of update contents. This failure could allow an attacker to provide a malicious update and alter the functionality of Rapid7 Nexpose. The attacker would need some pre-existing mechanism to provide a malicious update either through a social engineering effort privileged access to replace downloaded updates in transit or by performing an Attacker-in-the-Middle attack on the update service itself.

Reference

https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/nexpose/20221207/ https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2022/12/7/cve-2022-4261-rapid7-nexpose-update-validation-issue-fixed https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightvm/20221207/