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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-18638 in the critical feed json

graphite.composer.views.send_email vulnerable to SSRF

published 2019-10-11 7 y ago modified 2026-07-08 4 mo ago also GHSA-vfj6-275q-4pvm , PYSEC-2019-151 , EUVD-2019-0058

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
15.3%
EPSS 15.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

send_email in graphite-web/webapp/graphite/composer/views.py in Graphite through 1.1.5 is vulnerable to SSRF. The vulnerable SSRF endpoint can be used by an attacker to have the Graphite web server request any resource. The response to this SSRF request is encoded into an image file and then sent to an e-mail address that can be supplied by the attacker. Thus, an attacker can exfiltrate any information.

Patch / fix

  • pypi graphite-web 1.1.6
  • graphite-web Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.1.4-5

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18638

  • graphite-web Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.9.12+debian-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • graphite-web Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 0.9.15+debian-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • graphite-web Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1.0.2+debian-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18638

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • graphite-web Enterprise Storage 4 0.9.12-5.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2803-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-18638 updated cvss 7.5

graphite-web: graphite.composer.views.send_email vulnerable to SSRF

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 graphite-web Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 graphite-web
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Storage 3 graphite-web
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

15.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Nuclei template Graphite <=1.1.5 - Server-Side Request Forgery nuclei detection template
  • blog.orange.tw https://blog.orange.tw/2017/07/how-i-chained-4-vulnerabilities-on.html#second-bug-internal-graphite-ssrf referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4Gp4xoaeA referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi graphite-web
<1.1.6
1.1.6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.