Account Takeover in Octobercms
100Vexday Risk Score
Patch now. It under exploitation confirmed by CISA and has a working public exploit.
ssvc Actcvss 8.2epss 90%
from disclosure to weapon141 days
Published on NVDAug 26
1st PoC+141d
CISA KEV+145d
exploitation probability
90%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesCISA + VulnCheck
1 public exploit(s)
Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2022-02-01
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Versions
Affected
composer/october/system < 1.0.472; composer/october/system >= 1.1.1, < 1.1.5
Fixed in
composer/october/system 1.0.472; composer/october/system 1.1.5
Researched and written with AI from the vendor advisory and public analysis, with the sources above. Always confirm the fixed version in the official advisory before acting.
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/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Affected products
octobercms · octoberpublic PoCs found — 1
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References
https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rchttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-32648