CVE-2026-18860 (GCVE-0-2026-18860)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-11 14:52 – Updated: 2026-08-11 19:43 X_Open Source
VLAI
Title
Velociraptor incorrect Org deletion permissions check
Summary
Velociraptor allows multi-tenant deployments named "Orgs". By default Velociraptor, uses the ROOT org, but users can create child orgs for other tenants within the same deployment. Users can have different permissions in each org. To manage Orgs, Velociraptor usually examines the ORG_ADMIN permission on the ROOT org. This issue results from the Velociraptor server allowing for the deletion of Orgs by incorrectly checking the ORG_ADMIN permission of callers within the calling ORG instead of the ROOT org. However, Org admins of child orgs were able to add this permission to their ACL token within their own org. This allows an administrator in a child org, which is not also an administrator in the ROOT org, to delete other orgs.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-11 19:25 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-280 - Improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges
Assigner
rapid7 CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 78 records in the last 180 days details
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Rapid7 Velociraptor Affected: 0 , < 0.77.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:rapid7:velociraptor:*:*:linux:*:*:*:*:*
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.