CVE-2020-26231: October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. A bypass of CVE-2020-15247 (fixed in 1.0.469 and 1.1.0) was…

PriorityP431medium6.7CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRHUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.29%

20.6th percentile

October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. A bypass of CVE-2020-15247 (fixed in 1.0.469 and 1.1.0) was discovered that has the same impact as CVE-2020-15247. An authenticated backend user with the cms.manage_pages, cms.manage_layouts, or cms.manage_partials permissions who would normally not be permitted to provide PHP code to be executed by the CMS due to cms.enableSafeMode being enabled is able to write specific Twig code to escape the Twig sandbox and execute arbitrary PHP. This is not a problem for anyone that trusts their users with those permissions to normally write & manage PHP within the CMS by not having cms.enableSafeMode enabled, but would be a problem for anyone relying on cms.enableSafeMode to ensure that users with those permissions in production do not have access to write & execute arbitrary PHP. Issue has been patched in Build 470 (v1.0.470) and v1.1.1.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
october	cms	>= 1.0.469 < 1.0.470	1.0.470
october	cms	>= 1.0.471 < 1.0.472	1.0.472
october	cms	>= 1.1.1 < 1.1.2	1.1.2
octobercms	october	<= 1.0.471	—
octobercms	october	—	—
octobercms	october	—	—
octobercms	october	1.1.0 – 1.1.1	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.4MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

ghsa5.2MEDIUM

osv5.2MEDIUM

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