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CVE-2021-32648

October CMS Improper Authentication

KEVCRITICAL 9.1EPSS 90.4%

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
CISA KEV
Listed 18 January 2022 · due 1 February 2022
Weakness
CWE-287
Affected
octobercms/october
Source
security-advisories@github.com

CISA notes

Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32648

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.