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2 min Emergent Threat Response

CVE-2023-42793: Critical Authentication Bypass in JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD Servers

On September 20, 2023, JetBrains disclosed CVE-2023-42793, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in on-premises instances of their TeamCity CI/CD server. Successful exploitation could make the vulnerability a potential supply chain attack vector.

4 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Sep. 22, 2023

Improved Ticket Forging Metasploit’s admin/kerberos/forge_ticket module has been updated to work with Server 2022. In Windows Server 2022, Microsoft started requiring additional new PAC elements to be present - the PAC requestor and PAC attributes. The newly forged tickets will have the necessary elements added automatically based on the user provided domain SID and user RID. For example: msf6 auxiliary(admin/kerberos/forge_ticket) > run aes_key=4a52b73cf37ba06cf693c40f352e2f4d2002ef61f6031f649

4 min MITRE ATT&CK

Rapid7 2023 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations

InsightIDR has evolved to stay in front of emergent threats and expanding attack surfaces, and now we are proud to share our participation and results from the most recent MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation: Enterprise.

3 min Vulnerability Management

Rapid7 doubles down on a platform approach for Vulnerability Risk Management

This week, Rapid7 was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q3 2023.

4 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Sep. 15, 2023

Flask Cookies This week includes two modules related to Flask cookie signatures. One is specific to Apache Superset where session cookies can be resigned, allowing an attacker to elevate their privileges and dump the database connection strings. While adding this functionality, community member h00die also added a module for generically working with the default session cookies used by Flask. This generic module auxiliary/gather/python_flask_cookie_signer

8 min Patch Tuesday

Patch Tuesday - September 2023

A relatively light month. Word NTLM hash disclosure. Streaming Service Proxy elevation to SYSTEM. Internet Connection Sharing critical RCE.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Sep. 8, 2023

New module content (4) Roundcube TimeZone Authenticated File Disclosure Authors: joel, stonepresto, and thomascube Type: Auxiliary Pull request: #18286 contributed by cudalac Path: auxiliary/gather/roundcube_auth_file_read AttackerKB reference: CVE-2017-16651 Description: This PR adds a module to retrieve an arbitrary file on hosts run

2 min Cloud Security

A Look at Our Development Process of the Cloud Resource Enrichment API

Rapid7 has developed a new Cloud Resource Enrichment API that streamlines data retrieval from various cloud resources.

4 min Vulnerability Disclosure

CVE-2023-4528: Java Deserialization Vulnerability in JSCAPE MFT (Fixed)

In August 2023, Rapid7 discovered CVE-2023-4528, a Java deserialization vulnerability in Redwood Software’s JSCAPE MFT secure managed file transfer product. Successful exploitation can run arbitrary Java code as the `root` on Linux or the `SYSTEM` user on Windows.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: Sep. 1, 2023

Pumpkin Spice Modules Here in the northern hemisphere, fall is on the way: leaves changing, the air growing crisp and cool, and some hackers changing the flavor of their caffeine. This release features a new exploit module targeting Apache NiFi as well as a new and improved library to interact with it. New module content (1) Apache NiFi H2 Connection String Remote Code Execution Authors: Matei "Mal" Badanoiu and h00die Type: Exploit Pull request: #18257

11 min Detection and Response

Fake Update Utilizes New IDAT Loader To Execute StealC and Lumma Infostealers

Rapid7 has observed the Fake Browser Update lure utilizing a sophisticated new loader to execute infostealers.

3 min Emergent Threat Response

Exploitation of Juniper Networks SRX Series and EX Series Devices

On August 17, 2023, Juniper Networks published an out-of-band advisory on four different CVEs affecting Junos OS on SRX and EX Series devices. Successful exploitation would likely enable attackers to pivot to organizations’ internal networks.

7 min Penetration Testing

PenTales: What It’s Like on the Red Team

In this series, we’re sharing some of our favorite tales from the pen test desk and hopefully highlight some ways you can improve your own organization’s security.

5 min Velociraptor

Velociraptor 0.7.0 Release: Dig Deeper With Enhanced Client Search, Server Improvements and Expanded VQL Library

Rapid7 is thrilled to announce version 0.7.0 of Velociraptor is now LIVE and available for download.

7 min Emergent Threat Response

Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs

Rapid7’s managed detection and response (MDR) teams have observed increased threat activity targeting Cisco ASA SSL VPN appliances (physical and virtual) dating back to at least March 2023, including several incidents that ended in ransomware deployment.