CVE-2026-18972

critical

Assigned by CNA: rapid7

Published 2026-08-11 · Modified 2026-08-11

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CVSS v3

9.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.6

Description

An authenticated attacker can spoof another GUI user's identity by sending their request with the custom header \"Grpc-Metadata-USER\". This can lead to an account takeover attack from a user with low privileges to administrator.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

96%

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.

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References

http://docs.velociraptor.app/announcements/advisories/cve-2026-18972/

CWEs

CWE-290

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.