{
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc",
  "modified": "2025-02-18T22:37:42Z",
  "published": "2021-08-30T16:13:02Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-32648"
  ],
  "summary": "Account Takeover in Octobercms",
  "details": "### Impact\n\nAn attacker can request an account password reset and then gain access to the account using a specially crafted request.\n\n- To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must know the username of an administrator and have access to the password reset form.\n\n### Patches\n\n- Issue has been patched in Build 472 and v1.1.5\n- [Shortened patch instructions](https://github.com/daftspunk/CVE-2021-32648)\n\n### Workarounds\n\nApply https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374 and https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9 to your installation manually if you are unable to upgrade.\n\n[**Update 2022-01-20**] [Shortened patch instructions](https://github.com/daftspunk/CVE-2021-32648) can be found here.\n\n### Recommendations\n\nWe recommend the following steps to make sure your server stays secure:\n\n- Keep server OS and system software up to date.\n- Keep October CMS software up to date.\n- Use a multi-factor authentication plugin.\n- Change the [default backend URL](https://github.com/octobercms/october/blob/1.1/config/cms.php#L39) or block public access to the backend area.\n- Include the [Roave/SecurityAdvisories](https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories) Composer package to ensure that your application doesn't have installed dependencies with known security vulnerabilities.\n\n### References\n\nBugs found as part of Solar Security CMS Research. Credits to:\n• Andrey Basarygin\n• Andrey Guzei\n• Mikhail Khramenkov\n• Alexander Sidukov\n• Maxim Teplykh\n\n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Email us at [hello@octobercms.com](mailto:hello@octobercms.com)",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Packagist",
        "name": "october/system"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.0.472"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Packagist",
        "name": "october/system"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "1.1.1"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.1.5"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32648"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/octobercms/october"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-287"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-08-26T20:14:45Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-08-26T19:15:00Z"
  }
}