GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-gpfc-mph4-qm24 Velociraptor vulnerable to privilege escalation via UpdateConfig artifact
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-6264
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- www.velocidex.com/golang/velociraptor
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276
- Reviewed
- 2025-06-20
Affected packages
• Go www.velocidex.com/golang/velociraptor: < 0.74.3 → fixed in 0.74.3
Description
Velociraptor allows collection of VQL queries packaged into Artifacts from endpoints. These artifacts can be used to do anything and usually run with elevated permissions. To limit access to some dangerous artifact, Velociraptor allows for those to require high permissions like EXECVE to launch.
The Admin.Client.UpdateClientConfig is an artifact used to update the client's configuration. This artifact did not enforce an additional required permission, allowing users with COLLECT_CLIENT permissions (normally given by the "Investigator" role) to collect it from endpoints and update the configuration.
This can lead to arbitrary command execution and endpoint takeover.
To successfully exploit this vulnerability the user must already have access to collect artifacts from the endpoint (i.e. have the COLLECT_CLIENT given typically by the "Investigator' role).
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-6264 Velociraptor allows collection of VQL queries packaged into Artifacts from endpoints. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6264 advisory
- https://github.com/Velocidex/velociraptor/commit/21e7fd7138ddaa798cad35fd929864f6bb0c4e9c web
- https://blog.talosintelligence.com/velociraptor-leveraged-in-ransomware-attacks web
- https://docs.velociraptor.app/announcements/advisories/cve-2025-6264 web
- https://github.com/Velocidex/velociraptor package
- https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/08/26/velociraptor-incident-response-tool-abused-for-remote-access web