CVE-2019-18818 — strapi before 3

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

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: 2019-11-07T21:02:58.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T02:02:39.859Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/4443
• github.com — https://github.com/strapi/strapi/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.17.5
• www.npmjs.com — https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1311
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163950/Strapi-CMS-3.0.0-beta.17.4-Remote-Co…
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163939/Strapi-3.0.0-beta-Authentication-Byp…
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/165896/Strapi-CMS-3.0.0-beta.17.4-Privilege…