CVE-2017-5242highCWE-321

CVE-2017-5242: high-severity vulnerability in Rapid7 Nexpose Virtual Appliance

Rapid7 Nexpose Virtual Appliance Duplicate SSH Host Key

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.7epss 0.4%
Nexpose and InsightVM virtual appliances downloaded between April 5th, 2017 and May 3rd, 2017 contain identical SSH host keys. Normally, a unique SSH host key should be generated the first time a virtual appliance boots.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
Rapid7 · InsightVM Virtual ApplianceRapid7 · Nexpose Virtual Appliance