Rapid7 Insight Agent versions 3.1.2.38 and earlier suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability, whereby an attacker can hijack the flow of execution due to an unquoted argument to the runas.exe command used by the ir_agent.exe component, resulting in elevated rights and persistent access to the machine. This issue was fixed in Rapid7 Insight Agent version 3.1.3.80.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0237
• https://docs.rapid7.com/release-notes/insightagent/20220225/
• https://gist.github.com/n2dez/05d43c616f2b403e84ee55d4d7aab251