{"id":79485,"date":"2026-06-09T04:46:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8795-rapid7-velociraptor-yaml-injection-via-hostname\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:46:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:16:47","slug":"cve-2026-8795-rapid7-velociraptor-yaml-injection-via-hostname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8795-rapid7-velociraptor-yaml-injection-via-hostname\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-8795 &#8211; Rapid7 Velociraptor YAML Injection via Hostname"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8795<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 9, 2026, 1:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 18\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :A YAML injection vulnerability exists in the Windows.Collectors.Remapping artifact of Rapid7 Velociraptor before version 0.76.6. The hostname field in client_info.json inside a collection ZIP is inserted into a YAML template via Go&#8217;s text\/template without escaping. An attacker providing a crafted collection ZIP can leverage literal double quotes and newlines in the hostname to break out of the YAML quoted string and inject a new mount remapping entry. When an analyst applies the generated remapping file with &#8211;remap, arbitrary VQL executes on their machine with NullACLManager (all permissions granted, unsandboxed).<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 7.8 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8795 Published : June 9, 2026, 1:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 18\u00a0minutes ago Description :A YAML injection vulnerability exists in the Windows.Collectors.Remapping artifact of Rapid7 Velociraptor before version 0.76.6. The hostname field in client_info.json inside a collection ZIP is inserted into a YAML template via Go&#8217;s text\/template without escaping. An attacker providing a crafted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}