# CVE-2026-4482: Insight Agent Private Key Information Disclosure via Inherited File Permissions

> Local attackers can read private key files due to weak permissions, exposing agent identity material.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Apr 2026
- **Updated:** 10 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3r4x-4pr5-j666

## What is CVE-2026-4482?

CVE-2026-4482 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rapid7 Insight Agent, published on 10 Apr 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The installer certificate files in the …/bootstrap/common/ssl folder do not seem to have restricted permissions on Windows systems (users have read and execute access). For the client.key file in particular, this could potentially lead to exploits, as this exposes agent identity material to any locally authenticated standard user.

Weakness: CWE-732 (Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-4482?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Rapid7 Insight Agent.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-4482?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-4482 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-4482 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-4482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Rapid7 Insight Agent

- [CVE-2026-6482](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-6482/): Local Privilege Escalation via OpenSSL configuration file in Insight Agent (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2021-4007](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4007/): Rapid7 Insight Agent Privilege Escalation (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2019-5629](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5629/): Privilege escalation in Insight Agent (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2026-4837](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-4837/): Eval Injection in Rapid7 Insight Agent (medium 6.6)
- [CVE-2023-2273](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2273/): Rapid7 Insight Agent Directory Traversal (medium 5.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-4482 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-4482 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rapid7 Insight Agent, published on 10 Apr 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-4482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Rapid7 Insight Agent. 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-2026-4482/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-4482/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-4482
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4482
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-4482

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-4482/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.