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5.1 MEDIUM

CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
User Interaction (UI): None (N)
Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): Low (L)
Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): Low (L)
Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): None (N)
Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): Low (L)
Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): Low (L)
Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): Low (L)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): Low (L)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): None (N)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Low (L)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Low (L)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)

created 1 day, 19 hours ago Activity log

Created suggestion 1 day, 19 hours ago

Authentication Bypass in Metasploit JSON-RPC Service When DB Health Check Fails

A logic vulnerability (fail-open condition) has been identified within the Metasploit Framework's JSON-RPC web service interface. When an exception occurs during the database health check (db.check) and the environment variable MSF_WS_JSON_RPC_API_TOKEN is not explicitly set, the application resets the internal state flag msf.auth_initialized to false. The ApiToken Warden authentication strategy misinterprets this false value as an indicator that authentication is not initialized or required, thereby granting unauthenticated local access to the JSON-RPC request dispatcher.