🛡️ CVE-2024-8042 — insight-platform

🟢 CVSS 2.4 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-862 NVD
2.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Rapid7 Insight Platform versions between November 2019 and August 14, 2024 suffer from missing authorization issues whereby an attacker can intercept local requests to set the name and description of a new user group. This could potentially lead to an empty user group being added to the incorrect customer. This vulnerability is remediated as of August 14, 2024.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-8042 is classified as CWE-862: Missing Authorization. No authorisation check is performed before carrying out a restricted action.

Affected software

CVE-2024-8042 is recorded against 1 package.

  • insight-platform (from 2019-11-01 up to 2024-08-14)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 September 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

cwe.mitre.org

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-862
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-09
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
insight-platform 2019-11-01 2024-08-14

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