Actively exploited · Published Jul 3, 2019 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2018-18325

High 7.5 Exploited

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in DotNetNuke (DNN) from DotNetNuke (DNN). Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on November 3, 2021). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 74.0% (higher than 99.5% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)74.0%top 0.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Nov 3, 2021

Attack tooling2Metasploit, Nuclei

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by May 3, 2022.

Official description

DNN (aka DotNetNuke) 9.2 through 9.2.2 uses a weak encryption algorithm to protect input parameters. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-15811.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
NuGet	dotnetnuke.core	9.3.0	GHSA-j3g9-6fx5-gjv7

Affected products (as reported)

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

Weakness: CWE-326 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Platform/releases x_refsource_MISC
https://www.dnnsoftware.com/community/security/security-center x_refsource_MISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/157080/DotNetNuke-Cookie-Deserialization-Remote-Code-Execution.html x_refsource_MISC
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-18325 government-resource