CVE-2023-1305: RAPID7 Insightappsec

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An authenticated attacker can leverage an exposed “box” object to read and write arbitrary files from disk, provided those files can be parsed as yaml or JSON. This issue was resolved in the Managed and SaaS deployments on February 1, 2023, and in version 23.2.1 of the Self-Managed version of InsightCloudSec.

Affected products

• RAPID7 Insightappsec: before 23.2.1 (fixed in 23.2.1)
• RAPID7 Insightcloudsec: before 2023.02.01 (fixed in 2023.02.01)

Published 2023-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.