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CVE-2021-32648: October CMS Improper Authentication

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-01-18
• EPSS: 91.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-08-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: 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 request an account password reset and then gain access to the account using a specially crafted request. The issue has been patched in Build 472 and v1.1.5.

Affected products

• octobercms october: from 1.1.1 before 1.1.5; 1.0.471 — fixed in 1.1.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: octobercms october 1.1.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374
• https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9
• https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc
• https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374
• https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9
• https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-32648

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