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GHSA-gpfc-mph4-qm24 Velociraptor vulnerable to privilege escalation via UpdateConfig artifact

MEDIUM Published 2025-06-20 Modified 2025-10-13 Official page ↗
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