Vulnerability · Published Dec 29, 2025 · Assigned by rapid7
CVE-2025-14728Rapid7 Velociraptor Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Medium 6.8
In plain English
A medium-severity path traversal in Velociraptor from Rapid7. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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 (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Rapid7 | Velociraptor | 0 – before 0.75.6 |
Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N