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CVE-2025-14728: Rapid7 Velociraptor Directory Traversal Vulnerability
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2025-12-29 · updated 2026-10-07
- Weakness: CWE-22
Description
Rapid7 Velociraptor versions before 0.75.6 contain a directory traversal issue on Linux servers that allows a rogue client to upload a file which is written outside the datastore directory. Velociraptor is normally only allowed to write in the datastore directory. The issue occurs due to insufficient sanitization of directory names which end with a ".", only encoding the final "." AS "%2E". Although files can be written to incorrect locations, the containing directory must end with "%2E". This limits the impact of this vulnerability, and prevents it from overwriting critical files.
Affected products
- Rapid7 Velociraptor: before 0.75.6 — fixed in 0.75.6
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Rapid7 Velociraptor 0.75.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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