CVE-2019-18818strapi before 3.0.0-beta.17.5 mishandles password resets within packages/strapi-admin/controllers/Auth.js and…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 97.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
strapi before 3.0.0-beta.17.5 mishandles password resets within packages/strapi-admin/controllers/Auth.js and packages/strapi-plugin-users-permissions/controllers/Auth.js.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module, a Nuclei template and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- Strapi CMS Unauthenticated Password Reset (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/strapi_3_password_resetRank normaldisclosed 9 Feb 2022
Nuclei templates1 template
- strapi CMS <3.0.0-beta.17.5 - Admin Password Reset (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2019/CVE-2019-18818.yamlSeverity critical
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Strapi CMS 3.0.0-beta.17.4 - Set Password (Unauthenticated) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 50716webapps, nodejspublished 8 Feb 2022Not verified
- Strapi 3.0.0-beta - Set Password (Unauthenticated) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 50237webapps, multiplepublished 30 Aug 2021Not verified
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
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 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 | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 97.5% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (13 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
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References6
- https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/4443 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/strapi/strapi/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.17.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1311 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163950/Strapi-CMS-3.0.0-beta.17.4-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163939/Strapi-3.0.0-beta-Authentication-Bypass.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165896/Strapi-CMS-3.0.0-beta.17.4-Privilege-Escalation.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2019-0783 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6xc2-mj39-q599 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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