CVE-2018-15133

CRITICALNVD 8.19.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-01-16), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.1 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.1 HIGH under NVD CVSS v3. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Exploited in the wild
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 77%CVSS: 8.1Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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 v3
8.1
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
76
EG Risk 76/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity81% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
77%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.1 HIGH.

EG Severity
8.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
77% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/upgrade#upgrade-5.6.30 · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15133

Published

August 9, 2018

Last Modified

November 7, 2025

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 19, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-15133
Web page

Upgrade Guide | Laravel 5.6 - The clean stack for Artisans and agents

https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/upgrade#upgrade-5.6.30

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Packagist(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
laravel/frameworkv5.6.0 ... v5.6.9 (30 versions)
  • every version through 5.5.40: no fix on record
  • 5.6.0 up to 5.6.30: fixed in 5.6.30
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 37× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 233 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 134 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-23 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 77% · 99th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-06 15:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 77% · 99th percentile
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  5. 2026-09-27 21:51 UTCCISA KEV update
  6. 2026-09-26 15:53 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-26 15:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 77% · 99th percentile
  8. 2026-09-25 19:35 UTCCISA KEV update
  9. 2026-09-25 14:55 UTCCISA KEV update
  10. 2026-09-24 19:31 UTCCISA KEV update
  11. 2026-09-24 16:36 UTCEG score recompute
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  15. 2026-09-22 19:36 UTCCISA KEV update
  16. 2026-09-22 17:27 UTCEG score recompute
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  18. 2026-09-21 20:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 77% · 99th percentile
  19. 2026-09-21 19:09 UTCCISA KEV update
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  26. 2026-09-18 19:20 UTCCISA KEV update
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  31. 2026-09-16 14:10 UTCCISA KEV update
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  35. 2026-09-14 19:24 UTCCISA KEV update
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  40. 2026-09-11 18:49 UTCCISA KEV update
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  44. 2026-09-10 09:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 77% · 99th percentile
  45. 2026-09-09 19:08 UTCCISA KEV update
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  48. 2026-09-07 15:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 77% · 99th percentile
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  53. 2026-09-04 17:38 UTCCISA KEV update
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  56. 2026-09-02 14:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 77% · 99th percentile
  57. 2026-08-31 14:19 UTCCISA KEV update
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  62. 2026-08-27 17:22 UTCCISA KEV update
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  68. 2026-08-24 18:52 UTCCISA KEV update
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  73. 2026-08-21 16:49 UTCCISA KEV update
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Publicly available exploits

(8 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry, 6 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-47129✓ verified
    Published Jul 16, 2019

    PHP Laravel Framework 5.5.40 / 5.6.x < 5.6.30 - token Unserialize Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/unix/http/laravel_token_unserialize_exec✓ verified
    Published Jul 12, 2019

    PHP Laravel Framework token Unserialize Remote Command Execution

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCyeahhbean/Laravel-CVE-2018-15133
    Published Apr 27, 2025
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCAzhariKun/CVE-2018-15133
    Published Jan 3, 2021
    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCpwnedshell/Larascript
    Published Dec 21, 2020

    Laravel RCE exploit. CVE-2018-15133

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCaljavier/exploit_laravel_cve-2018-15133
    Published Nov 13, 2020

    Exploit for Laravel Remote Code Execution with API_KEY (CVE-2018-15133)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCPrabesh01/Laravel-PHP-Unit-RCE-Auto-shell-uploader
    Published Apr 5, 2020

    Laravel-PHP-Unit-RCE (CVE-2018-15133) Auto Exploiter and Shell Uploader

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCkozmic/laravel-poc-CVE-2018-15133
    Published Aug 14, 2018

    PoC for CVE-2018-15133 (Laravel unserialize vulnerability)

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2018-15133?
CVE-2018-15133 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 9, 2018. 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…
When was CVE-2018-15133 made public?
CVE-2018-15133 was made public on August 8, 2018: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 9, 2018. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 7, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2018-15133 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2018-15133 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on January 16, 2024, affecting Laravel Laravel Framework. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2018-15133?
CVE-2018-15133 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2018-15133?
CVE-2018-15133 affects Laravel Laravel Framework. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2018-15133?
A fix for CVE-2018-15133 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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