Rapid7 Insight Platform Unauthorized Empty Group Creation

published 2024-09-09 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-48899

cvss: 2.4; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits: 0; none known

Rapid7 Insight Platform versions between November 2019 and August 14, 2024 suffer from missing authorization issues whereby an attacker can intercept local requests to set the name and description of a new user group. This could potentially lead to an empty user group being added to the incorrect customer. This vulnerability is remediated as of August 14, 2024.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Rapid7 Insight Platform 08/14/2024

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-09-09)

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	2.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD	3.1	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected products

Rapid7 Insight Platform

Classification

Weakness

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

References

cwe.mitre.org /data/definitions/862.html
not-applicable

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-8042
NVD CVE-2024-8042

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Summary