Posts tagged Penetration Testing

13 min Metasploit

Metasploit Framework 6.3 Released

Metasploit Framework 6.3 is now available. New features include native Kerberos authentication support, streamlined Active Directory attack workflows (AD CS, AD DS), and new modules that request, forge, and convert tickets between formats.

5 min Haxmas

2022 Annual Metasploit Wrap-Up

It's been another gangbusters year for Metasploit, and the holidays are a time to give thanks to all the people that help make our load a little bit lighter. So, while this end-of-year wrap-up is a highlight reel of the headline features and extensions that landed in Metasploit-land in 2022, we also want to express our gratitude and appreciation for our stellar community of contributors, maintainers, and users. The Metasploit team merged 824 pull requests across Metasploit-related projects in 20

2 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Login brute-force utility Jan Rude [https://github.com/whoot] added a new module that gives users the ability to brute-force login for Linux Syncovery. This expands Framework's capability to scan logins to Syncovery, a popular web GUI for backups. WordPress extension SQL injection module Cydave [https://github.com/cydave], destr4ct [https://github.com/destr4ct], and jheysel-r7 [https://github.com/jheysel-r7] contributed a new module that takes advantage of a vulnerable WordPress extension. Thi

2 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Remote code execution modules for Spring Cloud Function and pfSense, plus bug fixes for the Windows secrets dump module.

3 min InsightIDR

A SIEM With a Pen Tester's Eye: How Offensive Security Helps Shape InsightIDR

At Rapid7, our laser-focus has always been trained on one thing: helping digital defenders spot and stop bad actors. From the start of our story, penetration testing — or pen testing, for short — has been one of the cornerstones of that obsession.

9 min Metasploit

Announcing Metasploit 6.2

Metasploit 6.2.0 has been released, marking another milestone that includes new modules, features, improvements, and bug fixes.

3 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Five new modules targeting Windows, Linux, macOS, and more. Plus, updates to the Log4Shell scanner and a new Windows Meterpreter option to enable additional logging visible in DbgView

4 min Research

Cloud Pentesting, Pt. 3: The Impact of Ecosystem Maturity

Now that we’ve covered the basics of cloud pentesting and the style in which a cloud environment could be attacked, let’s turn our attention to the entirety of this ecosystem.

7 min Research

Cloud Pentesting, Pt. 2: Testing Across Different Deployments

Pentesting in the cloud is just like on-premise, right? It depends on how a customer has set up their cloud deployment.

4 min Research

Cloud Pentesting, Pt. 1: Breaking Down the Basics

More and more customers are looking to get a pentest done in their cloud deployment. What does that mean?

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Welcome, Little Hippo: PetitPotam Our very own @zeroSteiner [https://github.com/zeroSteiner] ported [https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/16136] the PetitPotam [https://github.com/topotam/PetitPotam] exploit to Metasploit this week. This module leverages CVE-2021-36942 [https://attackerkb.com/topics/TEBmUAfeCs/cve-2021-36942?referrer=blog], a vulnerability in the Windows Encrypting File System (EFS) API, to capture machine NTLM hashes. This uses the EfsRpcOpenFileRaw function of t

3 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up

A new NOP module, improvements to RPC functionality and PHP Meterpreter, and WordPress and Cisco RV exploits.

3 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Five new modules, including exploits for Log4Shell and SonicWall SMA 100 series devices, plus a new Meterpreter command that allows users to kill all channels at once.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up

GitLab RCE New Rapid7 team member jbaines-r7 [https://github.com/jbaines-r7] wrote an exploit targeting GitLab via the ExifTool command. Exploiting this vulnerability results in unauthenticated remote code execution as the git user. What makes this module extra neat is the fact that it chains two vulnerabilities together to achieve this desired effect. The first vulnerability is in GitLab itself that can be leveraged to pass invalid image files to the ExifTool parser which contained the second v

3 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Modules for Apache Server, Sophos UTM, the OMIgod RCE, and more. Plus, support for reverse port forwarding via established SSH sessions.