High severity · published Aug 11, 2026
CVE-2026-18640
Velociraptor directory traversal via the NewNotebook API
7.1
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The NewNotebook API does not sufficiently sanitize its parameters allowing an authenticated user with NOTEBOOK_EDIT permission to write the notebook record outside the org's data store directory. The file written must have an extension of ".json.db" but can otherwise overwrite other metadata files (such as ACL records, hunts etc). This can corrupt these files and cause data corruption.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
VE
Velociraptor · Rapid7
before 0.77.2 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-18640
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-18640
docs.velociraptor.app
http://docs.velociraptor.app/announcements/advisories/cve-2026-18640/
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