CVE-2025-6264 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2025-6264
Vulnerability Scoring

5.5
/10
Significant Risk

Security assessments indicate that CVE-2025-6264 presents a notable risk, potentially requiring prompt mitigation.

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: High
    Exploits require significant effort and special conditions.
  • Attack Vector: Network
    Vulnerability is exploitable over a network without physical access.
  • Privileges Required: High
    High-level privileges are required for exploitation.
  • Scope: Changed
    Successful exploitation can impact components beyond the vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: None
    No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2025-6264 Details

Status: Analyzed

Last updated: 🕟 15 Oct 2025, 16:57 UTC
Originally published on: 🕒 20 Jun 2025, 03:15 UTC

Time between publication and last update: 117 days

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

cve@rapid7.com

CVSS3 Type

Secondary

CVSS3 Vector

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

CVE-2025-6264 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-6264: Velociraptor allows collection of VQL queries packaged into Artifacts from endpoints. These artifacts can be used to do anything and usually run with elevated permissions.  To limit access to some dangerous artifact, Velociraptor allows for those to require high permissions like EXECVE to launch. The Admin.Client.UpdateClientConfig is an artifact used to update the client's configuration. This artifact did not enforce an additional required permission, allowing users with COLLECT_CLIENT permissions (normally given by the "Investigator" role) to collect it from endpoints and update the configuration. This can lead to arbitrary command execution and endpoint takeover. To successfully exploit this vulnerability the user must already have access to collect artifacts from the endpoint (i.e. have the COLLECT_CLIENT given typically by the "Investigator' role).

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2025-6264

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2025-6264 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2025-6264

The exploitability of CVE-2025-6264 is influenced by multiple factors. Security teams should analyze system configurations and apply appropriate countermeasures to mitigate threats.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2025-6264, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2025-6264, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: Low
    CVE-2025-6264 could lead to minor leaks of non-critical information without major privacy breaches.
  • Integrity: Low
    Exploiting CVE-2025-6264 may cause minor changes to data without severely impacting its accuracy.
  • Availability: Low
    CVE-2025-6264 may slightly degrade system performance without fully affecting service availability.

CVE-2025-6264 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-276

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

  • Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs CAPEC-1 In applications, particularly web applications, access to functionality is mitigated by an authorization framework. This framework maps Access Control Lists (ACLs) to elements of the application's functionality; particularly URL's for web apps. In the case that the administrator failed to specify an ACL for a particular element, an attacker may be able to access it with impunity. An attacker with the ability to access functionality not properly constrained by ACLs can obtain sensitive information and possibly compromise the entire application. Such an attacker can access resources that must be available only to users at a higher privilege level, can access management sections of the application, or can run queries for data that they otherwise not supposed to.
  • Directory Indexing CAPEC-127 An adversary crafts a request to a target that results in the target listing/indexing the content of a directory as output. One common method of triggering directory contents as output is to construct a request containing a path that terminates in a directory name rather than a file name since many applications are configured to provide a list of the directory's contents when such a request is received. An adversary can use this to explore the directory tree on a target as well as learn the names of files. This can often end up revealing test files, backup files, temporary files, hidden files, configuration files, user accounts, script contents, as well as naming conventions, all of which can be used by an attacker to mount additional attacks.
  • Web Server Logs Tampering CAPEC-81 Web Logs Tampering attacks involve an attacker injecting, deleting or otherwise tampering with the contents of web logs typically for the purposes of masking other malicious behavior. Additionally, writing malicious data to log files may target jobs, filters, reports, and other agents that process the logs in an asynchronous attack pattern. This pattern of attack is similar to "Log Injection-Tampering-Forging" except that in this case, the attack is targeting the logs of the web server and not the application.

Vulnerable Configurations

  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.4.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.5-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.5-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.8:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.8:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.9:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.9:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.5.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.5-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.5-2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.6-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.6-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.6:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.6:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7-4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7-4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7-5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7-5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.7:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.8:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.8:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.8:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.8:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.8:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.8:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.9:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.9:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.9-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.9-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.7.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.7.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.7.0-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.7.0-3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.7.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.72:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.72:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.73:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.73:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.74:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.74:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.74.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.74.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.74.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:0.74.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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