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3 min Emergent Threat Response

Widespread Exploitation of VMware Workspace ONE Access CVE-2022-22954

On April 6, 2022, VMware detailed CVE-2022-22954, a critical RCE vulnerability affecting VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager.

5 min Vulnerability Management

How to Strategically Scale Vendor Management and Supply Chain Security

Here are simple changes that can help you provide more impactful supply chain security guidance and controls to decrease risk.

7 min Detection and Response

Velociraptor Version 0.6.4: Dead Disk Forensics and Better Path Handling Let You Dig Deeper

Rapid7 is pleased to announce the release of Velociraptor version 0.6.4 – an advanced, open-source digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool.

3 min Emergent Threat Response

Opportunistic Exploitation of WSO2 CVE-2022-29464

On April 18, 2022, MITRE published CVE-2022-29464, an unrestricted file upload vulnerability affecting various WSO2 products.

3 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: 4/22/22

ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Authenticated RCE This module is pretty exciting for us because it's for a vulnerability discovered by our very own Rapid7 researchers Jake Baines , Hernan Diaz, Andrew Iwamaye, and Dan Kelly. The vulnerability allowed for attackers to leverage the "custom script" functionality to execute arbitrary operating system commands whenever domain users reset their passwords. I won't go into too much depth though because we have a whole blog

3 min Application Security

Rapid7 Named a Visionary in 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing Second Year in a Row

For the second year in a row, Rapid7 has been named a Visionary in the Gartner® 2022 Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing.

3 min Cloud Security

2022 Cloud Misconfigurations Report: Cloud Security Breaches and Attack Trends

In the 2022 Cloud Misconfigurations Report, we reviewed 68 accounts of breaches from 2021. Let's take a brief look at some of the findings.

5 min Vulnerability Management

What's New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q1 2022 in Review

The product updates our vulnerability management (VM) team has made to InsightVM and Nexpose in the last quarter will empower you to stay in charge — not the vulnerabilities.

2 min Metasploit

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up: 4/15/22

Meterpreter Debugging A consistent message Metasploit hears from users is that debugging and general logging support could be improved. The gaps in functionality make it difficult for users to understand what happens when things go wrong and for new and existing developers to fix bugs and add new features. The Metasploit team has been trying to improve this in various parts of the framework, the most recent being Meterpreter. Meterpreter payloads now have additional debugging options that can be

3 min InsightAppSec

InsightAppSec and tCell Bring New DevSecOps Improvements in Q1

In Q1 2022, we've continued to improve InsightAppSec and tCell to help organizations shift left and automate security testing prior to deployment.

6 min Cloud Security

InsightCloudSec Supports the Recently Updated NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guide

The NSA and CISA recently updated their Kubernetes Hardening Guide. Here's how InsightCloudSec supports the updated guidance.

4 min Emergent Threat Response

CVE-2022-28810: ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Authenticated Command Execution (Fixed)

On April 9, ManageEngine fixed CVE-2022-28810 with the release of ADSelfService Plus Build 6122.

11 min Vulnerability Management

Patch Tuesday - April 2022

From Defender to Windows, Office to Azure, this month’s Patch Tuesday has a large swath of Microsoft’s portfolio getting vulnerabilities fixed. 119 CVEs were addressed today, not including the 26 Chromium vulnerabilities that were fixed in the Edge browser.

4 min Research

CVE-2022-24527: Microsoft Connected Cache Local Privilege Escalation (Fixed)

On April 12, 2022, Microsoft published CVE-2022-24527, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Connected Cache.

3 min XDR

3 Ways InsightIDR Users Are Achieving XDR Outcomes

Users of InsightIDR, Rapid7's cloud SIEM and XDR solution, are already making XDR outcomes a reality.