Advisory Weakness Curation

Account Takeover in Octobercms ### Impact An attacker can request an account password reset and then gain access to the account using a specially crafted request. - To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must know the username of an administrator and have access to the password reset form. ### Patches - Issue has been patched in Build 472 and v1.1.5 - Shortened patch instructions https://github.com/daftspunk/CVE-2021-32648 ### Workarounds Apply 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. [**Update 2022-01-20**] Shortened patch instructions https://github.com/daftspunk/CVE-2021-32648 can be found here. ### Recommendations We recommend the following steps to make sure your server stays secure: - Keep server OS and system software up to date. - Keep October CMS software up to date. - Use a multi-factor authentication plugin. - 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. - 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. ### References Bugs found as part of Solar Security CMS Research. Credits to: • Andrey Basarygin • Andrey Guzei • Mikhail Khramenkov • Alexander Sidukov • Maxim Teplykh ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email us at [hello@octobercms.com](mailto:hello@octobercms.com)

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password octobercms in a CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. An attacker can request an account password reset and then gain access to the account using a specially crafted request.

Account Takeover in Octobercms An attacker can request an account password reset and then gain access to the account using a specially crafted request. - To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must know the username of an administrator and have access to the password reset form.