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Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

CVE-2021-32648

High
9.1/10

Summary

octobercms in a CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In affected versions of october/rain 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.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-640 - Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

The software contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published