CVE-2019-5642

published 2019-11-06

CVE-2019-5642: Rapid7 Metasploit Pro version 4.16.0-2019081901 and prior suffers from an instance of CWE-732, wherein the unique server.key is written to the file system…

Priority P4 10 low 3.3 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C L I N A N

Rapid7 Metasploit Pro version 4.16.0-2019081901 and prior suffers from an instance of CWE-732, wherein the unique server.key is written to the file system during installation with world-readable permissions. This can allow other users of the same system where Metasploit Pro is installed to intercept otherwise private communications to the Metasploit Pro web interface.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
rapid7	metasploit	< 4.16.0	4.16.0
rapid7	metasploit	—	—
rapid7	metasploit_pro	unspecified – 4.16.0-2019081901	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 3.3 LOW CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

nvd v2.0 2.1 LOW AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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CWE-732