CVE-2019-5629 (GCVE-0-2019-5629)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-07-13 00:15 – Updated: 2024-09-16 22:45
VLAI
Summary
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
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
rapid7 CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 79 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Rapid7 Insight Agent Affected: 2.6.3 and prior
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Date Public
2019-05-29 00:00
Credits
This issue was discovered, and reported to Rapid7, by independent researcher Florian Bogner at Bee IT Security. It is being disclosed in accordance with Rapid7's vulnerability disclosure policy (https://www.rapid7.com/disclosure/).
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