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CVE-2023-0242 (GCVE-0-2023-0242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-18 20:57 – Updated: 2025-04-03 19:51

Title

Insufficient permission check in the VQL copy() function

Summary

Rapid7 Velociraptor allows users to be created with different privileges on the server. Administrators are generally allowed to run any command on the server including writing arbitrary files. However, lower privilege users are generally forbidden from writing or modifying files on the server. The VQL copy() function applies permission checks for reading files but does not check for permission to write files. This allows a low privilege user (usually, users with the Velociraptor "investigator" role) to overwrite files on the server, including Velociraptor configuration files. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must already have a Velociraptor user account at a low privilege level (at least "analyst") and be able to log into the GUI and create a notebook where they can run the VQL query invoking the copy() VQL function. Typically, most users deploy Velociraptor with limited access to a trusted group (most users will be administrators within the GUI). This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.Com/Velocidex/velociraptor/blob/master/vql/filesystem/copy.go https://github.Com/Velocidex/velociraptor/blob/master/vql/filesystem/copy.go and program routines copy(). This issue affects Velociraptor versions before 0.6.7-5. Version 0.6.7-5, released January 16, 2023, fixes the issue.

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-02 15:58 UTC

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

rapid7 CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 79 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://docs.velociraptor.app/announcements/2023-…	release-notes

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Rapid7	Velociraptor	Affected: 0 , < 0.6.7-5 (semver)	guessed

Date Public

2023-01-18 02:00

Credits

Paul Alkemade from Telstra

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FKIE_CVE-2023-0242

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-01-18 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 05:25

Severity

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
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Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	rapid7	velociraptor	*

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GHSA-G5VM-525Q-R66C

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-01-18 21:30 – Updated: 2023-02-01 01:37

Summary

Velociraptor vulnerable to Missing Authorization

Details

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

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    "nvd_published_at": "2023-01-18T21:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
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  "id": "GHSA-g5vm-525q-r66c",
  "modified": "2023-02-01T01:37:19Z",
  "published": "2023-01-18T21:30:21Z",
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  "summary": "Velociraptor vulnerable to Missing Authorization"
}

GSD-2023-0242

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20

Details

Aliases

CVE-2023-0242

Aliases

CVE-2023-0242

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OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12916-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2024-06-15 00:00 - Updated: 2024-06-15 00:00

Summary

system-user-velociraptor-1.0.0-2.1 on GA media

Severity

Moderate

Scope

2 vulnerabilities in this advisory, including CVE-2023-0242.

CVE-2023-0242

8.8 (High)


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

Recommended: 12 products

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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