CVE-2026-8795: RAPID7 Velociraptor

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A YAML injection vulnerability exists in the Windows.Collectors.Remapping artifact of Rapid7 Velociraptor before version 0.76.6. The hostname field in client_info.json inside a collection ZIP is inserted into a YAML template via Go's text/template without escaping. An attacker providing a crafted collection ZIP can leverage literal double quotes and newlines in the hostname to break out of the YAML quoted string and inject a new mount remapping entry. When an analyst applies the generated remapping file with --remap, arbitrary VQL executes on their machine with NullACLManager (all permissions granted, unsandboxed).

Affected products

• RAPID7 Velociraptor: before 0.76.6 (fixed in 0.76.6)

Published 2026-06-09. Last modified 2026-07-23.