CVE-2021-32648
October CMS Improper Authentication
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 1 February 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
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
- 9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 90.42% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 18 January 2022 · due 1 February 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-287
- Affected
- octobercms/october
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
EPSS 90.4% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32648
References
- https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374Patch
- https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9Patch
- https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rcPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374Patch
- https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9Patch
- https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rcPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-32648US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.