CVE-2026-8592: RAPID7 Insightconnect Awk

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OS Command Injection vulnerability in the process_string action of Rapid7 InsightConnect AWK Plugin on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via the text or expression parameters due to unsafe shell command construction in the processing pipeline.

Affected products

• RAPID7 Insightconnect Awk: before 1.2.2 (fixed in 1.2.2)

Published 2026-06-25. Last modified 2026-06-29.