CVE-2018-19907 — A Server-Side Template Injection issue was discovered in Crafter CMS 3

A Server-Side Template Injection issue was discovered in Crafter CMS 3.0.18. Attackers with developer privileges may execute OS commands by Creating/Editing a template file (.ftl filetype) that triggers a call to freemarker.template.utility.Execute in the FreeMarker library durin

01What is this vulnerability?

A Server-Side Template Injection issue was discovered in Crafter CMS 3.0.18. Attackers with developer privileges may execute OS commands by Creating/Editing a template file (.ftl filetype) that triggers a call to freemarker.template.utility.Execute in the FreeMarker library during rendering of a web page.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-12-06T07:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:51:17.588Z

09References

• medium.com — https://medium.com/%40buxuqua/rce-vulnerability-in-crafter-cms-server-side-templ…
• github.com — https://github.com/craftercms/craftercms/issues/2677