CVE-2021-29487Improper Authentication in October

Severity
7.4HIGHNVD
GHSA9.1OSV9.1
EPSS
0.5%
top 33.83%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedAug 26
Latest updateAug 30

Description

octobercms in a CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In affected versions of the october/system package an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and takeover of and user account on an October CMS server. The vulnerability is exploitable by unauthenticated users via a specially crafted request. This only affects frontend users and the attacker must obtain a Laravel secret key for cookie encryption and signing in order to exploit this vulnerability. The issue

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages3 packages

Packagistoctober/system1.1.11.1.5+1
NVDoctobercms/october1.0.4711.0.472+1
CVEListV5octobercms/october>= 1.0.471, < 1.0.472, >= 1.1.1, < 1.1.5+1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
October CMS auth bypass and account takeover2021-08-30
OSV
October CMS auth bypass and account takeover2021-08-30