# CVE-2024-6504: Rapid7 InsightVM Protection Mechanism Failure

> An attacker can crash the Rapid7 InsightVM Console by sending repeated invalid REST requests, causing CPU exhaustion and service unavailability.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 11 Sep 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-659h-c7mc-5hrw

## 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 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6504?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](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-2023-0681](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0681/): Rapid7 Nexpose Uncontrolled URL Redirect (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2024-2745](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2745/): Rapid7 InsightVM Sensitive Information Exposure via URL (low 3.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6504 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6504 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-2024-6504/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6504/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6504
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6504
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-6504

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6504/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.