CVE-2019-5624Rapid7 Metasploit Framework Zip Import Directory Traversal
- 7.4HighCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Rapid7 Metasploit Framework suffers from an instance of CWE-22, Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in the Zip import function of Metasploit. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in Metasploit at the privilege level of the user running Metasploit. This issue affects: Rapid7 Metasploit Framework version 4.14.0 and prior versions.
Timeline
ID reserved
By rapid7
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| rapid7CNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.4.
Affected products
- affected 4.14.0 – ≤ 4.14.0
What to do
Solution: Update to version 4.15.0 or later.
References
References3
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/11716 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://help.rapid7.com/metasploit/release-notes/archive/2019/04/#20190416 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://blog.doyensec.com/2019/04/24/rubyzip-bug.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-15199 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2019-5624)Record last updated .