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CVE-2021-29487

Published: Aug 26, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.4

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

octobercms

october

affected
>= 1.0.471, < 1.0.472
affected
>= 1.1.1, < 1.1.5

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-287

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

References

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