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Rapid7 Nexpose Update Validation Issue

Published Dec 7, 2022

Description

Rapid7 Nexpose and InsightVM versions prior to 6.6.172 failed to reliably validate the authenticity of update contents. This failure could allow an attacker to provide a malicious update and alter the functionality of Rapid7 Nexpose. The attacker would need some pre-existing mechanism to provide a malicious update, either through a social engineering effort, privileged access to replace downloaded updates in transit, or by performing an Attacker-in-the-Middle attack on the update service itself.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (3)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner rapid7
Published Dec 7, 2022
Updated Apr 14, 2025
Reserved Dec 1, 2022
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Apr 14, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a