CVE-2026-18972: critical vulnerability in Rapid7 Velociraptor
Velociraptor authenticated identity-spoofing vulnerability
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28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.6epss 0.4%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
Rapid7 · VelociraptorRelated CVEs — Rapid7 Velociraptor
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