CVE-2019-5629

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    CVE-2019-5629

    Published: 13 Jul 2019Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , https://help.rapid7.com/insightagent/release-notes/archive/2019/05/#20190529, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153159/Rapid7-Windows-InsightIDR-Agent-2.6.3.14-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html, http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/13, https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/0, https://bogner.sh/2019/06/local-privilege-escalation-in-rapid7s-windows-insight-idr-agent/

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High