CVE-2021-32648

Account Takeover in Octobercms

CVSS 8.2 HIGHEPSS 90.4%● KEVCWE-287

In short

An attacker can reset another user's password in OctoberCMS and take over their account by sending a specially crafted request. This allows unauthorized access to accounts without knowing the original password.

Technical detail

Authentication bypass in OctoberCMS password reset mechanism (CWE-287) allows an unauthenticated attacker to complete account takeover via a crafted request that bypasses validation checks during the reset process. The vulnerability affects october/system package versions prior to Build 472 and v1.1.5.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.

octobercms in a CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In affected versions of the october/system package an attacker can request an account password reset and then gain access to the account using a specially crafted request. The issue has been patched in Build 472 and v1.1.5.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Affected products

octobercms · october

Want to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?

Talk to TrueHacking →

References

https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374 https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9 https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-32648