CVE-2026-64955 (GCVE-0-2026-64955)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-12 09:39 – Updated: 2026-08-12 12:29
VLAI
Title
Velociraptor CSV Formula Injection in Export Pipeline
Summary
When Microsoft Excel imports a CSV file, it executes cells beginning with certain characters as formulas, giving such CSV files arbitrary execution.  Velociraptor fails to sanitize such cells when exporting to CSV from various places such as the GUI, offline collector or data exports. It is not clear if the vulnerability is actually in Microsoft Excel treating a CSV data file as executable content, or if Velociraptor should be sanitizing the data to prevent Excel from executing it. However, since this is such a common use case for Velociraptor we decided to highlight it in an advisory.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-12 12:29 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1236 - Improper neutralization of formula elements in a CSV file
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Rapid7 Velociraptor Affected: 0 , < 0.77.2 (semver)
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Credits
Tristan Madani (Talence Security)
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