Metasploit Wrap-Up 05/01/2026
2026-05-03T07:23:49Z•012d487cea83834fd09fca466e9386e2df3c64b75c2c4965849fb6a4ee9b9d88
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What happened
Collection of Rapid7 blog posts (Apr–May 2026) covering Metasploit updates and community modules, active high-profile vulnerabilities, and security industry perspectives. Highlights: a new read-only Metasploit MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to expose Metasploit data to AI agents; Metasploit shipped a local exploit for the Copy Fail Linux cryptographic API logic flaw (CVE-2026-31431) that enables local privilege escalation by replacing the ‘su’ binary in the page cache; cPanel & WHM authentication bypass CVE-2026-41940 (CVSS 9.8) enabling unauthenticated administrative access; and new Meta
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- 2026-05-03T07:23:49Z
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