CVE-2018-5955
An issue was discovered in GitStack through 2.3.10. User controlled input is not sufficiently filtered, allowing an unauthenticated…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 81.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
An issue was discovered in GitStack through 2.3.10. User controlled input is not sufficiently filtered, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to add a user to the server via the username and password fields to the rest/user/ URI.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Metasploit modules and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules2 modules
- GitStack Unauthenticated REST API Requests (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/admin/http/gitstack_restRank normaldisclosed 15 Jan 2018
- GitStack Unsanitized Argument RCE (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/http/gitstack_rceRank greatdisclosed 15 Jan 2018
Exploit-DB2 entries
- GitStack - Unsanitized Argument Remote Code Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44356remote, windowspublished 29 Mar 2018Verified
- GitStack - Remote Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44044webapps, phppublished 15 Jan 2018Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 44356 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
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Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 81.6% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
2
- https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3557 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 44356 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-17722 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-5955)Record last updated .