{"id":78495,"date":"2026-05-15T06:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-7373-metasploit-pro-on-windows-local-privilege-escalation-via-openssl-configuration-file-loading\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:16:23","slug":"cve-2026-7373-metasploit-pro-on-windows-local-privilege-escalation-via-openssl-configuration-file-loading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-7373-metasploit-pro-on-windows-local-privilege-escalation-via-openssl-configuration-file-loading\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-7373 &#8211; Metasploit Pro on Windows: Local Privilege Escalation via OpenSSL Configuration File Loading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-7373<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 15, 2026, 3:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 41\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Rapid7 Metasploit Pro is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation attack that allows users to gain SYSTEM level control of a Windows host. Upon startup the metasploitPostgreSQL service the subsequent  postgres.exe service attempts to load an OpenSSL configuration file from a non-existent directory that is writable by standard users. By planting a crafted openssl.cnf file an attacker can trick the high-privilege service into executing arbitrary commands. This effectively permits an unprivileged user to bypass security controls and achieve a full host compromise under the agent&#8217;s SYSTEM level access.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.5 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-7373 Published : May 15, 2026, 3:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 41\u00a0minutes ago Description :Rapid7 Metasploit Pro is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation attack that allows users to gain SYSTEM level control of a Windows host. Upon startup the metasploitPostgreSQL service the subsequent postgres.exe service attempts to load an OpenSSL configuration file from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}