# CVE-2022-35629: Velociraptor Client ID Spoofing

> An attacker can spoof client IDs to impersonate other clients, bypassing authentication and potentially modifying data.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 29 Jul 2022
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-77f9-jv8v-xrjp

## What is CVE-2022-35629?

CVE-2022-35629 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Rapid7 Velociraptor, published on 29 Jul 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Due to a bug in the handling of the communication between the client and server, it was possible for one client, already registered with their own client ID, to send messages to the server claiming to come from another client ID. This issue was resolved in Velociraptor 0.6.5-2.

Weakness: CWE-290 (Authentication Bypass by Spoofing), CWE-287 (Improper Authentication)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-35629?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Rapid7 Velociraptor.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-35629?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-35629 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-35629 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-35629 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Rapid7 Velociraptor

- [CVE-2023-0242](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0242/): Insufficient permission check in the VQL copy() function (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-5950](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5950/): Rapid7 Velociraptor Reflected XSS (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2026-5329](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-5329/): Rapid7 Velociraptor Improper Input Validation in Client Message Handler (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2026-6290](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-6290/): Velociraptor Query() Plugin Misapplies Permissions To Orgs (high 8.0)
- [CVE-2025-14728](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14728/): Rapid7 Velociraptor Directory Traversal Vulnerability (medium 6.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-35629 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-35629 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Rapid7 Velociraptor, published on 29 Jul 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-35629 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Rapid7 Velociraptor. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-35629/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-35629/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-35629
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-35629
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-35629

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-35629/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.