{"id":82491,"date":"2026-07-24T10:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-14172-rapid7-insightvm-nexpose-and-insight-agent-local-privilege-escalation-via-unvalidated-executable-invocation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:16:32","slug":"cve-2026-14172-rapid7-insightvm-nexpose-and-insight-agent-local-privilege-escalation-via-unvalidated-executable-invocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-14172-rapid7-insightvm-nexpose-and-insight-agent-local-privilege-escalation-via-unvalidated-executable-invocation\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-14172 &#8211; Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and Insight Agent Local Privilege Escalation via Unvalidated Executable Invocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-14172<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 24, 2026, 7:16 a.m. | 33\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and the Insight Agent execute discovered executables during authenticated assessment without validating file ownership, allowing a local low-privileged user to run code as the scan credential (Scan Engine) or as root\/SYSTEM (Insight Agent). Fixed in Scan Engine content 1.1.3935 and Insight Agent content component 0.0.245.0.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 7.8 | 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-2026-14172 Published : July 24, 2026, 7:16 a.m. | 33\u00a0minutes ago Description :Rapid7 InsightVM, Nexpose, and the Insight Agent execute discovered executables during authenticated assessment without validating file ownership, allowing a local low-privileged user to run code as the scan credential (Scan Engine) or as root\/SYSTEM (Insight Agent). Fixed in Scan Engine content &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-82491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82491","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=82491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}