CVE-2018-15133
Laravel Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
- Published
- Aug 9, 2018
- Updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Jul 16, 2019
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.5%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
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.
Sources
14- cve-2018-15133Exploit
Proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2018-15133 that achieves remote command execution on Laravel applications by abusing insecure deserialization with forged API keys.
Exploit for Laravel Remote Code Execution with API_KEY (CVE-2018-15133)
- CVE-2018-15133Exploit
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