FKIE_CVE-2026-6948

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-04 00:16 - Updated: 2026-05-04 15:22
Severity ?
4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Velociraptor versions prior to 0.76.4 contain a resource exhaustion vulnerability in the server's agent control channel. This allows a compromised or rogue Velociraptor client to crash the server via out-of-memory (OOM) by sending crafted messages through the normal client communication channel.
References
cve@rapid7.comhttps://docs.velociraptor.app/announcements/advisories/cve-2026-6948/
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