CVE-2023-2226 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2023-2226

Velociraptor crashes while parsing some malformed PE or OLE files.

Vulnerability Description

Due to insufficient validation in the PE and OLE parsers in Rapid7's Velociraptor versions earlier than 0.6.8 allows attacker to crash Velociraptor during parsing of maliciously malformed files.  For this attack to succeed, the attacker needs to be able to introduce malicious files to the system at the same time that Velociraptor attempts to collect any artifacts that attempt to parse PE files, Authenticode signatures, or OLE files. After crashing, the Velociraptor service will restart and it will still be possible to collect other artifacts.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Thanks to b1tg https://github.com/b1tg for reporting these issues and providing samples that trigger the crashes

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Velociraptor
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: April 21st, 2023
Last Modified: February 4th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)