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CVE-2018-15133

Laravel Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability

KEVHIGH 8.1EPSS 76.8%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 6 February 2024). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

In Laravel Framework through 5.5.40 and 5.6.x through 5.6.29, remote code execution might occur as a result of an unserialize call on a potentially untrusted X-XSRF-TOKEN value. This involves the decrypt method in Illuminate/Encryption/Encrypter.php and PendingBroadcast in gadgetchains/Laravel/RCE/3/chain.php in phpggc. The attacker must know the application key, which normally would never occur, but could happen if the attacker previously had privileged access or successfully accomplished a previous attack.

CVSS 3.1
8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
76.81% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed 16 January 2024 · due 6 February 2024
Weakness
CWE-502
Affected
laravel/laravel
Source
cve@mitre.org

CISA notes

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/upgrade#upgrade-5.6.30; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15133

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.