CVE-2025-6264: Rapid7 Velociraptor (Medium, CVSS 5.5)
- CVSS
- 5.5 Medium (v3.1)
- EPSS
- 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (higher than 63.8% of CVEs)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not on CISA’s KEV list
- Public exploit
- Yes, reported in 1 GitHub repository
- Weakness
- CWE-276
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L- Published
- Jun 20, 2025
What it is
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).
Description from the National Vulnerability Database.
What to do
Check whether you run Rapid7 Velociraptor, then apply the vendor’s fix or mitigation from the advisories below. Because this flaw is exploited or has public exploit code, treat it as urgent and check for signs of compromise, not just the patch level.
Advisories and fixes
ThreatRoundup coverage
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Sources: NVD, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, and public exploit databases (availability only). ThreatRoundup reports whether public exploit code exists but never links to it: fake proof-of-concepts that infect security researchers are common. This page updates automatically.