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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.4 High

CVE-2021-29487

Authentication bypass in Octobercms

Description

octobercms in a CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In affected versions of the october/system package an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and takeover of and user account on an October CMS server. The vulnerability is exploitable by unauthenticated users via a specially crafted request. This only affects frontend users and the attacker must obtain a Laravel secret key for cookie encryption and signing in order to exploit this vulnerability. The issue has been patched in Build 472 and v1.1.5.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

octobercms october

  • >= 1.0.471, < 1.0.472affected
  • >= 1.1.1, < 1.1.5affected

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