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PortainerApplication

CVE-2018-19466

CRITICAL · 9.8 CVSS v3.0 Published 2019-03-27
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 1.20.0 or later.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Public exploit Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
A vulnerability was found in Portainer before 1.20.0. Portainer stores LDAP credentials, corresponding to a master password, in cleartext and allows their retrieval via API calls.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-522

Credentials are stored or transmitted without adequate protection, so an attacker who reaches them can reuse them directly. One weak link here can unravel an entire system. Remediation means strong hashing for stored secrets, encryption in transit, and never writing credentials to logs.

General guidance for the insufficiently protected credentials class — the official description and references above are authoritative for this specific CVE. Want a bespoke review and a reviewed fix? Ask our team →

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
PortainerApplication
Affected:< 1.20.0

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

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

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 1.20.0 or later
Fixed in 1.20.0
Vendor patch github.com →
Recommended fix High confidence

Portainer 1.20.0

  1. 1. Back up existing Portainer data and configuration before upgrading
  2. 2. Stop the running Portainer container: docker stop portainer
  3. 3. Pull the fixed Portainer image version 1.20.0: docker pull portainer/portainer:1.20.0
  4. 4. Remove the existing Portainer container (data volumes will be preserved): docker rm portainer
  5. 5. Start the new Portainer container with the same volume mounts: docker run -d --name portainer -p 9000:9000 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer:1.20.0
  6. 6. Verify the upgrade was successful by logging into the Portainer UI and checking the version
  7. 7. If using LDAP configuration, verify that credentials are no longer retrievable in cleartext via API
Caveat Review release notes for 1.20.0 to check for any breaking changes in configuration or feature modifications

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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