CVE-2019-5624: RAPID7 Metasploit

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Rapid7 Metasploit Framework suffers from an instance of CWE-22, Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in the Zip import function of Metasploit. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in Metasploit at the privilege level of the user running Metasploit. This issue affects: Rapid7 Metasploit Framework version 4.14.0 and prior versions.

Affected products

• RAPID7 Metasploit: up to and including 4.14.0

Published 2019-04-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.