Critical
Security advisory
Grafana 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.6.4 and 5.x before 5.2.3 allows authentication bypass because an attacker can generate a valid "remember me" cookie knowing only a username of an LDAP or OAuth user.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-15727
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Grafana 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.6.4 and 5.x before 5.2.3 allows authentication bypass because an attacker can generate a valid "remember me" cookie knowing only a username of an LDAP or OAuth user.
osv:CVE-2018-15727
Complete source record
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"references": [
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