CVE record · CVE-2017-5242

Rapid7 Nexpose Virtual Appliance Duplicate SSH Host Key

CVSS 7.7 HighEPSS 0.0040 · 34th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: rapid7) at 12 Jan 2023, 00:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Rapid7	Nexpose Virtual Appliance	affected 2017.04.05 to before 2017.04.05* custom affected 2017.05.03 to 2017.05.03, inclusive custom
Rapid7	InsightVM Virtual Appliance	affected 2017.04.05 to before 2017.04.05* custom affected 2017.05.03 to 2017.05.03, inclusive custom

Identifiers: CVE-2017-5242
CNA: rapid7
Weakness (CWE): CWE-321
Tags: Rapid7 Nexpose Virtual Appliance
Rapid7 InsightVM Virtual Appliance
Hard-coded credentials
Published: 12 Jan 2023
Updated: 8 Apr 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.7	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0040, the 34th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 12 Jan 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2017/05/17/rapid7-nexpose-virtual-appliance-duplicate-ssh-host-key-cve-2017-5242/

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