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Knowledge is power, especially when it’s shared. A collaboration between the open source community and Rapid7, Metasploit helps security teams do more than just verify vulnerabilities, manage security assessments, and improve security awareness; it empowers and arms defenders to always stay one step (or two) ahead of the game.

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Recent Blog Posts

Fri Jun 05 2026

Weekly Metasploit Update: Apache ActiveMQ RCE, Gogs Rebase RCE, and Windows Kernel Pointer Enum

When Open Source is a bit too OpenSeveral fun modules landed this week, including an Apache RCE, Windows Kernel pointer collection, and Gogs RCE via naming. Leading off is Gogs' RCE that allows an attacker to execute commands...


Fri May 29 2026

Metasploit Wrap Up 05/29/2026

More Linux LPEsHark the age of the Linux LPE has arrived. This week’s release follows up on recent work bringing new Linux LPEs to Metasploit users. Copy Fail seemed to have kicked off a trend of similar bugs and hot on its h...


Fri May 22 2026

Metasploit Wrap Up 05/22/2026

Another week, another authentication bypassOur humble Metasploit weekly(ish) blog has been blessed with a new network component vulnerability. The dynamic duo of @sfewer-r7 and @jburgess-r7 have discovered and authored the ad...

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