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4 min Vulnerability Management

CVE-2019-15846 Privileged Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in the Exim Mailer: What You Need to Know

On Sept. 6, the Exim development team released a patch for CVE-2019-15846, which fixed a privileged, unauthenticated RCE weakness in its popular internet email server software.

11 min Vulnerability Disclosure

R7-2019-09 | CVE-2019-5617, CVE-2019-5643, CVE-2019-5644: C4G BLIS authentication and authorization vulnerabilities (FIXED)

This disclosure describes R7-2019-09, composed of three vulnerabilities in the Basic Laboratory Information System (BLIS). Due to flawed authentication and authorization verification, versions of BLIS < 3.5 are vulnerable to unauthenticated password resets (R7-2019-09.1), and versions of BLIS < 3.51 are vulnerable to unauthenticated enumeration of facilities and usernames (R7-2019-09.2) as well as unauthenticated updates to user information (R7-2019-09.3). These vulnerabilities are summarized i

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Wrap-Up 9/6/19

At our (final!) DerbyCon Town Hall today, the Metasploit team announced the release of an initial exploit module PR for CVE-2019-0708, aka BlueKeep.

4 min Metasploit

Initial Metasploit Exploit Module for BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708)

Today, Metasploit is releasing an initial public exploit module for CVE-2019-0708, also known as BlueKeep, as a pull request on Metasploit Framework.

2 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test: Your Mouse Is My Keyboard

In one engagement, we were tasked with compromising the internal network of a facility that was used for medical trials. Here's what happened.

3 min Application Security

RASP 101: What Is Runtime Application Self-Protection?

If your organization isn't using a runtime application self-protection (RASP) tool to protect your applications, here's what you need to know.

2 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up 8/30/19

Back to school blues Summer is winding down and while our for contributions haven't dropped off (thanks y'all!), we've been tied up with events and a heap of research. Don't despair, though: our own Brent Cook , Pearce Barry, Jeffrey Martin , and Matthew Kienow will be at DerbyCon 9 running the Metasploit Town Hall at noon Friday. They'll be delivering a community update and answering questions, so be sur

1 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test: Nerds in the NERC

Here is the story of how we gained access to a NERC CIP control room in a power plant as part of a penetration testing engagement.

5 min Cloud Infrastructure

How to Set Up InsightVM in Your Google Cloud Environment

In this blog post, we’ll go over how to set up our vulnerability scanner, InsightVM in your Google Cloud and how to tweak it for your environment.

3 min Application Security

Application Security 101: The Importance of DevSecOps in AppSec

In this blog, we will share some insightful tips on all things application security and DevSecOps.

7 min InsightVM

Summer Security Fundamentals Recap: Vulnerability Management

In this blog, we share with you key takeaways from our recent vulnerability management panel, along with tips for creating a successful VM program.

2 min Metasploit Weekly Wrapup

Metasploit Wrap-Up 8/23/19

A LibreOffice file format exploit, plus improvements to TLS and CredSSP-based fingerprinting.

2 min Penetration Testing

This One Time on a Pen Test: Missed a Spot

In this penetration testing story, Ted Raffle discusses how even strong security controls and threat mitigation can miss the mark when only one or two systems fall through the cracks.

4 min Application Security

How to Prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks

Cross-site scripting (XSS) isn’t new, but its impact and visibility are both growing. Here’s what you need to know to protect them from XSS attacks.

12 min Penetration Testing

Ask a Pen Tester: Q&A with Rapid7 Penetration Tester Aaron Herndon

Recently, we gave our customers the opportunity to ask members of our penetration testing services team any burning questions they have.