CVE-2025-6264Velociraptor priviledge escalation via UpdateConfig artifact
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 36% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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).
Timeline
ID reserved
By rapid7
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 months 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) | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 36% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected < 0.74.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gowww.velocidex.com/golang/velociraptorGHSA-gpfc-mph4-qm24 (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Workaround: To better restrict the types of artifacts users can run, the `basic artifacts` mechanism should be used as described https://docs.velociraptor.app/docs/artifacts/security/#basic-artifacts To detect unintended privilege escalations in custom artifacts, users should run the artifact verifier as described here https://docs.velociraptor.app/docs/artifacts/security/#restricting-dangerous-client-artifacts
References
References3
- https://docs.velociraptor.app/announcements/advisories/cve-2025-6264/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://blog.talosintelligence.com/velociraptor-leveraged-in-ransomware-attacks/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/08/26/velociraptor-incident-response-tool-abused-for-remote-access/ (opens in a new tab)
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-2025-18787 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-gpfc-mph4-qm24 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-6264)Record last updated .