CVE-2021-32648Account Takeover in Octobercms
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CISA lists it as known exploited since Jan 18, 2022; federal agencies had to remediate by Feb 1, 2022. Treat that date as your deadline.
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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.
- CVSS
- 8.2 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-287
- Known exploited
- Added to CISA KEV Jan 18, 2022; federal remediation due Feb 1, 2022Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 90.42% (percentile 100)
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Oct 21, 2025
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
octobercms october octobercms:october (from the name) | from 1.0.471, < 1.0.472; from 1.1.1, < 1.1.5 | CNA record |
octobercms october octobercms:october | from 1.1.1 before 1.1.5; 1.0.471 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rcx-refsource-confirm, patch, vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374x-refsource-misc, patch
- https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9x-refsource-misc, patch
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-32648us-government-resource
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