CVE-2021-32648

Account Takeover in Octobercms

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

octobercms · october

CVSS v3.1 NVD

9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v3.1 GITHUB

8.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

CVSS v3.1 GitHub

8.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N/E:H

CVSS v2.0 NVD

6.4 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

EPSS

90.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile

CISA KEV

added 2022-01-18

Nuclei

high

Published

2021-08-26

Updated

2025-10-21

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• Immersive-Labs-Sec/CVE-2021-3264812★ · 2022-01-14
• daftspunk/CVE-2021-326481★ · 2022-01-20

Nuclei templates (1)

• projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-32648.yaml

Security advisories

• octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc
• advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc
• octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2021-25281
• CVE-2021-25282
• CVE-2021-26855
• CVE-2021-26857
• CVE-2021-38647
• CVE-2021-4034