CVE-2024-11401 Rapid7 Insight Platform Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Standard users can modify platform password policies via API due to missing authorization checks, allowing privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-11401?
CVE-2024-11401 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Rapid7 Insight Platform, published on 11 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Rapid7 Insight Platform versions prior to November 13th 2024, suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability whereby, due to a lack of authorization checks, an attacker can successfully update the password policy in the platform settings as a standard user by crafting an API (the functionality was not possible through the platform's User Interface). This vulnerability has been fixed as of November 13th 2024.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11401?
How do I fix CVE-2024-11401?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11401 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-11401 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11401 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f45q-cm63-9w96.