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Rapid7’s Mid-Year Threat Review

Rapid7’s 2023 Mid-Year Threat Review aggregates data and analysis from our vulnerability intelligence, managed services, and threat analytics teams to provide a mid-year snapshot of the attack landscape and give organizations actionable guidance on protecting themselves from common threats.

7 min Vulnerability Management

What's New in CVSS v4

CVSS v4 ushers in some meaningful improvements wrapped in a bit of nuanced complexity, especially if you’re a vendor or threat researcher.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Aug. 11, 2023

A new Metabase RCE module, updates to the citrix_formssso_target_rce module for CVE-2023-3519 to include two new targets, Citrix ADC (NetScaler) 12.1-65.25, and 12.1-64.17, and more

9 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - August 2023

ASP.NET zero-day vuln. Teams malicious meetings. MSMQ critical RCE. Patches & a makeover for last month's unpatched zero-day vuln.

4 min

A Message from Rapid7 CEO, Corey Thomas

Earlier today, the following email was shared with Rapid7 employees.

4 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Aug. 4, 2023

Fly High in the Sky With This New Cloud Exploit! This week, a new module was added that takes advantage of both authentication bypass and command injection in certain versions of Western Digital's MyCloud hardware. Submitted by community member Erik Wynter , this module gains access to the target, attempts to bypass authentication, verifies whether that was successful, then executes the payload with root privileges. This works on versions before 2.30.196, and offer

3 min Penetration Testing

Why Physical Social Engineering Engagements are an Important Part of Security

In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully highlight some ways you can improve your own organization’s security.

2 min Research

Poorly Purged Medical Devices Present Security Concerns After Sale on Secondary Market

In Security Implications from Improper De-acquisition of Medical Infusion Pumps Rapid7 performs a physical and technical teardown of more than a dozen medical infusion pumps.

6 min Vulnerability Disclosure

CVE-2023-35082 - MobileIron Core Unauthenticated API Access Vulnerability

Rapid7 discovered a new vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to access the API in unsupported versions of MobileIron Core (11.2 and below).

5 min Application Security

InsightAppSec Advanced Authentication Settings: Token Replacement

InsightAppSec Token Replacement can be used to capture and replay Bearer Authentication tokens, JWT Authentication tokens, or any other form of session token.

4 min Cloud Security

New InsightCloudSec Compliance Pack for CIS AWS Benchmark 2.0.0

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) recently released version two of their AWS Benchmark: CIS AWS Benchmark 2.0.0.

3 min Cybersecurity

How To Present SecOps Metrics (The Right Way)

Metrics presentations can get boring. So, it is essential for security professionals to make them engaging. Here's how.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: July 28, 2023

Unauthenticated RCE in VMware Product This week, community contributor h00die added an exploit module that leverages a command injection vulnerability in VMWare Aria Operations for Networks, formerly known as vRealize Network Insight. Versions 6.2 to 6.10 are vulnerable (CVE-2023-20887 ). A remote attacker could abuse the Apache Thrift RPC interface by sending specially crafted data and get unauthe

4 min Penetration Testing

PenTales: There Are Many Ways to Infiltrate the Cloud

At Rapid7 we love a good pen test story. So often they show the cleverness, skill, resilience, and dedication to our customer’s security that can only come from actively trying to break it! In this series, we’re going to share some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully highlight some ways you can improve your own organization’s security. Rapid7 was engaged to do an AWS cloud ecosystem pentest for a large insurance group. The test included looking at internal and external as

2 min Emergent Threat Response

CVE-2023-35078: Critical API Access Vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile

CVE-2023-35078 is a critical remote unauthenticated API access vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile.