CVE-2021-32648

Account Takeover in Octobercms

Exploited in attacks High 8.2 Attack chance: 90%

What it is

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.

CISA: 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.

What to do

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Deadline for US federal agencies: February 1, 2022

Added to the CISA list: January 18, 2022
Published: August 26, 2021
Severity: High 8.2 CVSS 3.1
Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS): 90% in the top 0.2% of all known vulnerabilities
Weakness: CWE-287
More details: NVD · CVE.org · CISA

All references (3)

Sources: Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (CISA, public domain), CVE records (cve.org) and EPSS (FIRST). The chance of attacks is the EPSS estimate that someone will try to exploit the flaw in the next 30 days.