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Rapid7 released Metasploit Framework 6.5 with broad new offensive security capabilities led by Malleable C2 support across Meterpreter payloads. The update adds HTTP(S) profile support for Windows, Java, Python, PHP, and Linux Meterpreters, using TLV-based configuration blocks, payload wrapping and unwrapping, distinct GET and POST URIs, and connection UUID handling in URIs, headers, and GET parameters. Rapid7 also shipped documentation, regression tests, and multiple fixes for HTTP body parsing, escaped string handling, IPv6 URL handling, timeout generation, custom response headers, and crashes tied to omitted prepend or append directives in profile sections.
The release also expands post-exploitation and operator tooling with new NTLM relay capabilities, including HTTP-to-SMB and HTTP-to-LDAP relay modules and an exploits/windows/local/ntlm_relay_2_self module to automate the NTLMRelay2Self local privilege escalation workflow on domain-joined Windows workstations. Additional changes include a new msfmcpd middleware layer exposing 16 tools for AI-assisted interaction with high-risk actions disabled by default, enhanced fetch payloads with fileless Linux execution via memfd_create, shorter command stagers through fetch_pipe, dynamic multi-architecture payload delivery for Linux, randomized 32-bit block API hashes for evasion, and MITRE ATT&CK module tagging to improve search and threat emulation.
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Rapid7 announced the release of Metasploit Framework 6.5, adding Malleable C2 support across Meterpreter payloads, a new MCP server for AI-assisted interaction, expanded NTLM relaying, enhanced fetch payloads, randomized block API hashes, and MITRE ATT&CK module tagging.
Rapid7 merged pull request #21728 for the Metasploit 6.5 release cycle, consolidating Malleable C2 profile support work, related bug fixes, regression tests, documentation, and dependency updates in the Metasploit Framework.
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Rapid7 released a Metasploit update adding **seven new modules** plus multiple enhancements and fixes, including new exploit support for high-severity vulnerabilities affecting AI infrastructure, remote access appliances, and VoIP devices. The release highlights an Ollama model registry path traversal chain (**CVE-2024-37032**, CVSS 8.8) that abuses the `pull` mechanism to achieve arbitrary file write and escalate to **unauthenticated root RCE**, and a Grandstream GXP1600 stack overflow (**CVE-2026-2329**, CVSS 9.3) that can yield a root session and is paired with post-exploitation capabilities such as credential harvesting and SIP traffic interception/proxying. The update also adds/updates an exploit for **BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access (PRA) / Remote Support (RS)** appliances via **unauthenticated command injection** (**CVE-2026-1731**, CVSS 9.9), and introduces a BeyondTrust helper library to support future module development and port existing modules. On the evasion side, Metasploit gained a Linux ARM64 RC4 “packer” module (`linux/aarch64/rc4_packer`) featuring in-memory ELF execution and sleep-based evasion, while several existing modules and auxiliary scanners received quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes (e.g., improved checks and reduced false positives/crashes).
Jun 29, 2026
Rapid7 developers added and refined a Metasploit module for **CVE-2026-41477**, an unauthenticated IPC named pipe local privilege escalation flaw in **Deskflow**. The work tracks exploit support for a vulnerability that could allow a local attacker to elevate privileges through Deskflow's inter-process communication mechanism, and the issue was added to the Metasploit project workflow for further development. The updated module was reworked to use direct `kernel32` Railgun API calls for named pipe communication instead of `cmd_exec` and PowerShell wrappers, while also replacing PowerShell-based environment variable expansion with native path expansion. Developers removed the WMI launcher and intermediate PowerShell scripts, limited the module to **Meterpreter** sessions because Railgun is required, and added documentation with verified scenario output as the exploit support matured.
Jun 29, 2026
Rapid7 submitted a Metasploit module for **Ivanti Connect Secure** that targets the chained vulnerabilities `CVE-2023-46805` and `CVE-2024-21887`, a combination widely associated with remote code execution on exposed appliances. The pull request indicates offensive security tooling has been updated to support exploitation of the authentication bypass and command injection chain, lowering the barrier for defenders and attackers alike to reproduce the issue in testing or live environments. A separate GitHub reference shows ProjectDiscovery adding a Nuclei template for `CVE-2025-4665`, identified as a **SQL injection** flaw in the **WordPress CFDB7** plugin. While the available material does not include exploitation details or patch guidance, both references show public security tooling rapidly incorporating newly disclosed vulnerabilities, increasing the urgency for organizations to identify exposed Ivanti gateways and vulnerable WordPress installations and apply mitigations or updates.
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