{"id":"CVE-2019-5642","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-5642","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:18:34.820Z","title":"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.","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":"2019-11-06T19:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:38:01.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@rapid7.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":3.3,"severity":"LOW","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-732"],"affected":["rapid7/metasploit"],"epss":{"score":0.0031,"percentile":0.23697,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.31%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://help.rapid7.com/metasploit/release-notes/?rid=4.16.0-2019091001","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@rapid7.com"},{"url":"https://help.rapid7.com/metasploit/release-notes/?rid=4.16.0-2019091001","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5642","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}