CVE-2017-18638

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-10-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-918

Description

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.

Affected products

Graphite project Graphite: through 1.1.5

References

https://blog.orange.tw/2017/07/how-i-chained-4-vulnerabilities-on.html#second-bug-internal-graphite-ssrf
https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/issues/2008
https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/pull/2499
https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/security/advisories/GHSA-vfj6-275q-4pvm
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00030.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4Gp4xoaeA
https://blog.orange.tw/2017/07/how-i-chained-4-vulnerabilities-on.html#second-bug-internal-graphite-ssrf
https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/issues/2008
https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/pull/2499
https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/security/advisories/GHSA-vfj6-275q-4pvm
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00030.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4Gp4xoaeA

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