CVE-2018-19367

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Portainer through 1.19.2 provides an API endpoint (/api/users/admin/check) to verify that the admin user is already created. This API endpoint will return 404 if admin was not created and 204 if it was already created. Attackers can set an admin password in the 404 case.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://github.com/lichti/shodan-portainer/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/2475Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/lichti/shodan-portainer/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/2475Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 20, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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