CVE-2025-6264
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Velociraptor vulnerable to privilege escalation via UpdateConfig artifact in www.velocidex.com/golang/velociraptor
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | www.velocidex.com/golang/velociraptor | <0.74.3 | 0.74.3 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6264
- https://github.com/Velocidex/velociraptor/commit/21e7fd7138ddaa798cad35fd929864f6bb0c4e9c
- https://blog.talosintelligence.com/velociraptor-leveraged-in-ransomware-attacks
- https://docs.velociraptor.app/announcements/advisories/cve-2025-6264
- https://github.com/Velocidex/velociraptor
- https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/08/26/velociraptor-incident-response-tool-abused-for-remote-access
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gpfc-mph4-qm24
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-6264.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.