CVE-2022-0237: RAPID7 Insight Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Rapid7 Insight Agent versions 3.1.2.38 and earlier suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability, whereby an attacker can hijack the flow of execution due to an unquoted argument to the runas.exe command used by the ir_agent.exe component, resulting in elevated rights and persistent access to the machine. This issue was fixed in Rapid7 Insight Agent version 3.1.3.80.

Affected products

• RAPID7 Insight Agent: up to and including 3.1.2.38

Published 2022-03-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.