# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-0290"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-01-18T21:10:42.929Z"
updatedAt: "2025-04-03T19:52:44.579Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-0290"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-0290.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0290"
title: "Rapid7 Velociraptor directory traversal in client ID parameter "
summary: "Rapid7 Velociraptor did not properly sanitize the client ID parameter to the CreateCollection API, allowing a directory traversal in where the collection task could be written. It was possible to provide a client id of \"../clients/server\" to schedule the collection for the server (as a server artifact), but only require privileges to schedule collections on the client.\n\nNormally, to schedule an artifact on the server, the COLLECT_SERVER permission is required. This permission is normally only granted to \"administrator\" role. Due to this issue, it is sufficient to have the COLLECT_CLIENT privilege, which is normally granted to the \"investigator\" role.\nTo exploit this vulnerability, the attacker must already have a Velociraptor user account at least \"investigator\" level, and be able to authenticate to the GUI and issue an API call to the backend. Typically, most users deploy Velociraptor with limited access to a trusted group, and most users will already be administrators within the GUI.\n\nThis issue affects Velociraptor versions before 0.6.7-5. Version 0.6.7-5, released January 16, 2023, fixes the issue.\n\n"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"0.6.7-5","changes":[{"at":"5","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"Rapid7","product":"Velociraptor","packageName":"Velociraptor","collectionURL":"https://github.com/Velocidex/velociraptor/releases","platforms":["Windows","Linux","MacOS","64 bit","32 bit"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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