CVE-2019-5642: RAPID7 Metasploit

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Rapid7 Metasploit Pro version 4.16.0-2019081901 and prior suffers from an instance of CWE-732, wherein the unique server.key is written to the file system during installation with world-readable permissions. This can allow other users of the same system where Metasploit Pro is installed to intercept otherwise private communications to the Metasploit Pro web interface.

Affected products

• RAPID7 Metasploit: before 4.16.0 (fixed in 4.16.0); version 4.16.0 only

Published 2019-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.