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GHSA-MXR5-MC97-63RC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-08-30 16:13 – Updated: 2025-10-22 19:06

Summary

Account Takeover in Octobercms

Details

Impact

An attacker can request an account password reset and then gain access to the account using a specially crafted request.

To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must know the username of an administrator and have access to the password reset form.

Patches

Issue has been patched in Build 472 and v1.1.5
Shortened patch instructions

Workarounds

Apply https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374 and https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9 to your installation manually if you are unable to upgrade.

[Update 2022-01-20] Shortened patch instructions can be found here.

Recommendations

We recommend the following steps to make sure your server stays secure:

Keep server OS and system software up to date.
Keep October CMS software up to date.
Use a multi-factor authentication plugin.
Change the default backend URL or block public access to the backend area.
Include the Roave/SecurityAdvisories Composer package to ensure that your application doesn't have installed dependencies with known security vulnerabilities.

References

Bugs found as part of Solar Security CMS Research. Credits to: • Andrey Basarygin • Andrey Guzei • Mikhail Khramenkov • Alexander Sidukov • Maxim Teplykh

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email us at hello@octobercms.com

Severity

8.2 (High)


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

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  "id": "GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc",
  "modified": "2025-10-22T19:06:40Z",
  "published": "2021-08-30T16:13:02Z",
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  "summary": "Account Takeover in Octobercms"
}

CVE-2021-32648 (GCVE-0-2021-32648)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-26 19:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:25

Title

Account Takeover in Octobercms

Summary

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.

Severity

8.2 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-02-06 19:37 UTC

CWE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
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https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
octobercms	october	Affected: >= 1.0.471, < 1.0.472 Affected: >= 1.1.1, < 1.1.5

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