CVE-2024-6504 Rapid7 InsightVM Protection Mechanism Failure

What is CVE-2024-6504?

CVE-2024-6504 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Rapid7 InsightVM, published on 18 Jul 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Rapid7 InsightVM Console versions below 6.6.260 suffer from a protection mechanism failure whereby an attacker with network access to the InsightVM Console can cause it to overload or crash by sending repeated invalid REST requests in a short timeframe, to the Console's port 443 causing the console to enter an exception handling logging loop, exhausting the CPU. There is no indication that an attacker can use this method to escalate privilege, acquire unauthorized access to data, or gain control of protected resources. This issue is fixed in version 6.6.261.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6504?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Rapid7 Insightvm.

How do I fix CVE-2024-6504?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6504 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-6504 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6504 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Rapid7 InsightVM

• CVE-2017-5242 Rapid7 Nexpose Virtual Appliance Duplicate SSH Host Key High 7.7
• CVE-2021-3844 Rapid7 InsightVM Insufficient Session Expiration Medium 5.7
• CVE-2022-4261 Rapid7 Nexpose Update Validation Issue Medium 4.4
• CVE-2023-0681 Rapid7 Nexpose Uncontrolled URL Redirect Medium 4.3
• CVE-2024-2745 Rapid7 InsightVM Sensitive Information Exposure via URL Low 3.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-659h-c7mc-5hrw.