Vulnerability CVE-2021-29487


Published: 2021-08-26

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.

Type:

CWE-287

(Improper Authentication)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.8/10
4.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Octobercms -> October 

 References:
https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9
https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-h76r-vgf3-j6w5
https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374

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