CVE-2020-7350: RAPID7 Metasploit

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Rapid7 Metasploit Framework versions before 5.0.85 suffers from an instance of CWE-78: OS Command Injection, wherein the libnotify plugin accepts untrusted user-supplied data via a remote computer's hostname or service name. An attacker can create a specially-crafted hostname or service name to be imported by Metasploit from a variety of sources and trigger a command injection on the operator's terminal. Note, only the Metasploit Framework and products that expose the plugin system is susceptible to this issue -- notably, this does not include Rapid7 Metasploit Pro. Also note, this vulnerability cannot be triggered through a normal scan operation -- the attacker would have to supply a file that is processed with the db_import command.

Affected products

• RAPID7 Metasploit: before 5.0.85 (fixed in 5.0.85)

Published 2020-04-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.