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CVE-2021-29487 Detail

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.


Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
Base Score:  7.4 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N


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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-h76r-vgf3-j6w5 Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-Other Other cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-287 Improper Authentication Provider acceptance level GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-29487
NVD Published Date:
08/26/2021
NVD Last Modified:
08/02/2022
Source:
GitHub, Inc.