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CVE-2021-29487GHSA-H76R-VGF3-J6W5

Authentication bypass in Octobercms

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.0.472, 1.1.5
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • octobercms october

    From 1.0.471 · fixed in 1.0.472; From 1.1.1 · fixed in 1.1.5

  • october/systemPackagist

    fixed in 1.0.472

  • october/systemPackagist

    From 1.1.1 · fixed in 1.1.5

References 3

GitHub · octobercms/library

GitHub · octobercms/october