CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-29487

7.4 HIGH Published 2021-08-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-08-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

octobercms in a CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In affected versions of the october/system package an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and takeover of and user account on an October CMS server. The vulnerability is exploitable by unauthenticated users via a specially crafted request. This only affects frontend users and the attacker must obtain a Laravel secret key for cookie encryption and signing in order to exploit this vulnerability. The issue has been patched in Build 472 and v1.1.5.

Affected configurations

• octobercms october (>= 1.0.471 < 1.0.472) • octobercms october (>= 1.1.1 < 1.1.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References