CVE-2018-15727

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 64% (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekWeaponized
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 64%
  • Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, other public proof-of-concept code)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 64%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Grafana 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.6.4 and 5.x before 5.2.3 allows authentication bypass because an attacker can generate a valid "remember me" cookie knowing only a username of an LDAP or OAuth user.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
70
EG Risk 70/100

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)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation65% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 2 (Weaponized): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from 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 or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
64%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

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

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
64% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-22). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade 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, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

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

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from 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)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” 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

Published

August 29, 2018

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 6, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0019
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3829
Web page

CVE-2018-15727 - PSIRT.COM

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105184

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2018-15727(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatgrafana-0:5.2.4-1.el7cp2019-01-03redhat
redhattendrl-ui-0:1.6.3-14.el7rhgs2018-12-17redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
github.com/grafana/grafana—
  • every version up to 4.6.4: fixed in 4.6.4
  • 5.0.0 up to 5.2.3: fixed in 5.2.3
  • every version up to 4.6.4+incompatible: fixed in 4.6.4+incompatible
  • 5.0.0+incompatible up to 5.2.3+incompatible: fixed in 5.2.3+incompatible
—

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 45× 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 93 of 139 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. 7 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 46 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-23 08:06 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-23 08:06 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-22 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 64% · 99th percentile
  4. 2026-10-22 07:45 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-22 07:45 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-21 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 64% · 99th percentile
  7. 2026-10-21 07:24 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-21 07:24 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-20 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 64% · 99th percentile
  10. 2026-10-20 07:06 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-20 07:06 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-19 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 64% · 99th percentile
  13. 2026-10-19 06:43 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-19 06:43 UTCVendor advisory
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  17. 2026-10-17 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 64% · 99th percentile
  18. 2026-10-17 06:02 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-17 06:02 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-16 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 64% · 99th percentile
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  22. 2026-10-16 05:42 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-15 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 64% · 99th percentile
  24. 2026-10-15 04:10 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-15 04:10 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 64% · 99th percentile
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  3. 2026-10-14 00:11 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-13 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 64% · 99th percentile
  5. 2026-10-12 20:17 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-12 20:17 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-12 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 63% · 99th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 GitHub PoC). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Metasploitauxiliary/admin/http/grafana_auth_bypass✓ verified
    Published Apr 20, 2020

    Grafana 2.0 through 5.2.2 authentication bypass for LDAP and OAuth

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCu238/grafana-CVE-2018-15727
    Published Aug 29, 2018

    a small utility to generate a cookie in order to exploit a grafana vulnerability (CVE-2018-15727)

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2018-15727?
CVE-2018-15727 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 29, 2018. Grafana 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.6.4 and 5.x before 5.2.3 allows authentication bypass because an attacker can generate a valid "remember me" cookie knowing only a username of an LDAP or OAuth user.
When was CVE-2018-15727 made public?
CVE-2018-15727 was made public on August 29, 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 29, 2018. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2018-15727 actively exploited?
CVE-2018-15727 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: a Metasploit module exists for it. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 64% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2018-15727?
CVE-2018-15727 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2018-15727?
A fix for CVE-2018-15727 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2018-15727 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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