CVE-2021-32648Account Takeover in Octobercms
- 8.2HighCVSS base score
- 91.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 18 Jan 2022
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as October CMS Improper Authentication.
- Added
- 18 Jan 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 1 Feb 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 18 Jan 2022.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits1
Nuclei templates1 template
- OctoberCMS - Account Takeover (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-32648.yamlSeverity high
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 91.2% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.2.
Affected products
- affected >= 1.0.471, < 1.0.472
- affected >= 1.1.1, < 1.1.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistoctober/systemGHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-32648 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-1808 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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