CVE-2026-18640 (GCVE-0-2026-18640)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-11 14:53 – Updated: 2026-08-11 17:33
VLAI
Title
Velociraptor directory traversal via the NewNotebook API
Summary
The NewNotebook API does not sufficiently sanitize its parameters allowing an authenticated user with NOTEBOOK_EDIT permission to write the notebook record outside the org's data store directory. The file written must have an extension of ".json.db" but can otherwise overwrite other metadata files (such as ACL records, hunts etc). This can corrupt these files and cause data corruption.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-11 17:25 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
rapid7 CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 79 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Rapid7 Velociraptor Affected: 0 , < 0.77.2 (semver)
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Credits
Hamad Alghamdi
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