CVE-2026-17535
An attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in Rapid7 Velociraptor to gain elevated privileges, including administrator rights, bypass security measures, conduct spoofing and cross-site scripting attacks, manipulate data, disclose sensitive information, or trigger a denial-of-service condition.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple vulnerabilities allow privilege escalation, security bypass, cross-site scripting, spoofing, data manipulation, information disclosure, and denial-of-service in Rapid7 Velociraptor.
- Who is affected
- All Velociraptor deployments are affected by multiple attack vectors.
- Urgency
- Critical; multiple severe vulnerabilities affecting authentication, authorization, and system availability.
- Action
- Update Rapid7 Velociraptor to the latest patched version immediately.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.12% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 2% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (2)
- high[NEW] [high] Rapid7 Velociraptor: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-08-19
- mediumCVE-2026-17535: Velociraptor's NTFS parsing library mishandles several out of bound and memory exhaustion bugs…nvd · 2026-08-11
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