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Rapid7 Insight Agent: CVE-2017-5252: Insight Agent on Windows is vulnerable to loading malicious libraries placed in its dependency search path

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Rapid7 Insight Agent: CVE-2017-5252: Insight Agent on Windows is vulnerable to loading malicious libraries placed in its dependency search path

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/06/2017
Modified
11/18/2021

Description

Insight Agent on Windows systems searches for local dependencies in several locations, including in directories in the system PATH variable. As this can include arbitrary directories, and the Agent doesn't specify the directories to search, an attacker with local admin access could place a (potentially malicious) DLL in a directory in that path, causing the Agent to load that library.

Solution(s)

  • rapid7-insightagent-1_4_68-kb2533623
  • rapid7-insightagent-1_4_68

References

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