🛡️ CVE-2022-0237 — insight-agent

🟡 CVSS 4.0 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-264 NVD
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Description

Rapid7 Insight Agent versions 3.1.2.38 and earlier suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability, whereby an attacker can hijack the flow of execution due to an unquoted argument to the runas.exe command used by the ir_agent.exe component, resulting in elevated rights and persistent access to the machine. This issue was fixed in Rapid7 Insight Agent version 3.1.3.80.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0237 is classified as CWE-264: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls. Permissions or privilege boundaries are set or enforced incorrectly, letting an actor act beyond their intended level.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0237 is recorded against 1 package.

  • insight-agent (fixed in 3.1.2.38)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 March 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

docs.rapid7.com
gist.github.com
docs.rapid7.com
gist.github.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-264
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-03-17
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
insight-agent — 3.1.2.38

Similar Threats

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