CVE-2024-0394: RAPID7 Minerva

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Rapid7 Minerva Armor versions below 4.5.5 suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability whereby an authenticated attacker can elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privilege.  The vulnerability is caused by the product's implementation of OpenSSL's`OPENSSLDIR` parameter where it is set to a path accessible to low-privileged users.  The vulnerability has been remediated and fixed in version 4.5.5. 

Affected products

• RAPID7 Minerva: before 4.5.5 (fixed in 4.5.5)
• RAPID7 Minerva Armor: before 4.5.5 (fixed in 4.5.5)

Published 2024-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.