Rapid7 Insight Agent, version 2.6.3 and prior, suffers from a local privilege escalation due to an uncontrolled DLL search path. Specifically, when Insight Agent 2.6.3 and prior starts, the Python interpreter attempts to load python3.dll at "C:\DLLs\python3.dll," which normally is writable by locally authenticated users. Because of this, a malicious local user could use Insight Agent's startup conditions to elevate to SYSTEM privileges. This issue was fixed in Rapid7 Insight Agent 2.6.4.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-15204 Rapid7 Insight Agent, version 2.6.3 and prior, suffers from a local privilege escalation due to an uncontrolled DLL search path. Specifically, when Insight Agent 2.6.3 and prior starts, the Python interpreter attempts to load python3.dll at "C:\DLLs\python3.dll," which normally is writable by locally authenticated users. Because of this, a malicious local user could use Insight Agent's startup conditions to elevate to SYSTEM privileges. This issue was fixed in Rapid7 Insight Agent 2.6.4.
Fixes

Solution

This issue affects Insight Agent instances at version 2.6.4 and older. Insight Agent will normally update automatically. Otherwise, if your Insight Agent instances are not running 2.6.5 or higher, ensure that you update all instances to 2.6.5 (or later if available).


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: rapid7

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:45:30.681Z

Reserved: 2019-01-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-5629

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-07-13T01:15:10.447

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:45:16.070

Link: CVE-2019-5629

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