CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-15248

4.2 MEDIUM Published 2020-11-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269, CWE-863

Description

October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In October CMS from version 1.0.319 and before version 1.0.470, backend users with the default "Publisher" system role have access to create & manage users where they can choose which role the new user has. This means that a user with "Publisher" access has the ability to escalate their access to "Developer" access. Issue has been patched in Build 470 (v1.0.470) & v1.1.1.

Affected configurations

• octobercms october (>= 1.0.319 < 1.0.469)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References