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Vulnerability threat dossier

CVE-2019-18818

strapistrapi

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.

VTP deterministic threat19.5of 100 · CVSS excluded

VTP analyst assessment

Strapi password-reset weakness

AI-assisted analytical recommendationDoes not set factual exploitation state
AI review stateREVIEWED
AI priorityNONE
AI confidence78%
Public exploitation · VTP factUNKNOWN

Assessment

Strapi releases before 3.0.0-beta.17.5 mishandle password resets in the admin and users-permissions authentication controllers. The 9.8 CVSS indicates unauthenticated remote compromise potential, although the supplied description does not detail the exploitation sequence.

Why it matters

  • A password-reset weakness can undermine account authentication and associated data or administrative controls.
  • EPSS is 0.97639 (99.898th percentile), which is predictive context only.

Evidence

1 record references and 1 source references passed trusted post-response validation. The current deterministic record contains 0 independent evidence groups.

Uncertainties

The precise reset manipulation and required account state are not provided.

No KEV entry, exploit evidence, supporting source text, or first-party observation is supplied.

First-party honeypot request semantics are potentially consistent with this CVE. This is an unconfirmed candidate match, not proof of exploitation or successful execution.

Next watchpoint

Identification of Strapi releases earlier than 3.0.0-beta.17.5.

AI baseline history (1)
  1. BASELINE ASSESSED
    Strapi password-reset weaknessgpt-5.6-sol · high
Technical severityCRITICALCVSS 9.8 · technical context
Public exploitationUNKNOWNGlobal public evidence
Exploit maturityNONE KNOWNReliability not implied
EPSS0.98100th percentile · prediction
Evidence confidence0%Strongest independent active claim
VelocitySTABLEMaterial events only
First-party telemetryFirst-party honeypot request semantics are potentially consistent with this CVE. This is an unconfirmed candidate match, not proof of exploitation or successful execution.
Availability: SENSOR_ONLINE_NO_MATCHING_ACTIVITY · Evidence: UNKNOWN
MEDIUM

Honeypot request semantics are potentially consistent with CVE-2019-18818. The match tolerates bounded payload variants and remains unconfirmed.

POTENTIALLY COMPATIBLETechnical consistency 80/100

Basis: deterministic technical candidate

CVE-2019-18818
Potentially consistent; exploitation not confirmedDisclosure embargo completed
MEDIUM

Honeypot request semantics are potentially consistent with CVE-2019-18818. The match tolerates bounded payload variants and remains unconfirmed.

POTENTIALLY COMPATIBLETechnical consistency 80/100

Basis: deterministic technical candidate

CVE-2019-18818
Potentially consistent; exploitation not confirmedDisclosure embargo completed
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VTP deterministic assessment

Why this matters

  1. 01

    EPSS is 0.98; this is predictive context, not exploitation evidence.

  2. 02

    First-party honeypot request semantics are potentially consistent with this CVE. This is an unconfirmed candidate match, not proof of exploitation or successful execution.

02

Material change ledger

What changed

No material changes are recorded for this subject.

03

Claim provenance

Evidence and source independence

0publications detected
0underlying evidence chains

0 primary sources · 0 dependent secondary reports · 0 reports with unresolved independence. Repetition remains visible without multiplying confirmation.

04

Event history

Threat timeline

    05

    Original publications

    Source record

    06

    Technical vulnerability data

    Context, not threat proof

    VTP threat score19.5vtp-threat-v1-public
    Public exploitation0 / 30
    EPSS prediction19.53 / 20
    Exploit availability0 / 15
    Source independence0 / 15
    Intelligence recency0 / 10
    Threat acceleration0 / 10
    CVSS technical severityExcluded
    CVSS
    9.8 · CRITICAL
    Vector
    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    CWE
    CWE-640
    CPE records
    90
    Deterministic history records
    20
    Primary technical reference
    07

    Raw observations

    First-party sensor records

    First-party honeypot request semantics are potentially consistent with this CVE. This is an unconfirmed candidate match, not proof of exploitation or successful execution.