# CVE-2019-5615: Rapid7 InsightVM Stored Credential Exposure

> Site-level users can access encrypted and clear-text administrator credentials, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** Low 3.1 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 9 Apr 2019
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vf4c-cmqm-2c6v

## What is CVE-2019-5615?

CVE-2019-5615 is a low-severity vulnerability in Rapid7 InsightVM, published on 9 Apr 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Users with Site-level permissions can access files containing the username-encrypted passwords of Security Console Global Administrators and clear-text passwords for restoring backups, as well as the salt for those passwords. Valid credentials are required to access these files and malicious users would still need to perform additional work to decrypt the credentials and escalate privileges. This issue affects: Rapid7 InsightVM versions 6.5.11 through 6.5.49.

Weakness: CWE-522 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials), CWE-257 (Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Format)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5615?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Rapid7 Insightvm.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-5615?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-5615 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-5615 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5615 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Rapid7 InsightVM

- [CVE-2017-5242](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-5242/): Rapid7 Nexpose Virtual Appliance Duplicate SSH Host Key (high 7.7)
- [CVE-2021-3844](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3844/): Rapid7 InsightVM Insufficient Session Expiration (medium 5.7)
- [CVE-2022-4261](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4261/): Rapid7 Nexpose Update Validation Issue (medium 4.4)
- [CVE-2024-6504](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6504/): Rapid7 InsightVM Protection Mechanism Failure (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2023-0681](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0681/): Rapid7 Nexpose Uncontrolled URL Redirect (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-5615 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-5615 is a low-severity vulnerability in Rapid7 InsightVM, published on 9 Apr 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5615 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Rapid7 InsightVM. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5615/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5615/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5615
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5615
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-5615

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5615/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.