CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2019-07-13
Last Modified Date: 2019-10-09