Security Advisory

CVE-2019-5642

3.3
LOW

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date November 6, 2019
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory