CVE-2021-36804
Akaunting Password Reset Relay
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- rapid7
Description
Akaunting version 2.1.12 and earlier suffers from a password reset spoofing vulnerability, wherein an attacker can proxy password reset requests through a running Akaunting instance, if that attacker knows the target's e-mail address. This issue was fixed in version 2.1.13 of the product. Please note that this issue is ultimately caused by the defaults provided by the Laravel framework, specifically how proxy headers are handled with respect to multi-tenant implementations. In other words, while this is not technically a vulnerability in Laravel, this default configuration is very likely to lead to practically identical identical vulnerabilities in Laravel projects that implement multi-tenant applications.
Timeline
ID reserved
By rapid7
- 16 days later
· 16 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| rapid7CNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.96% · top 38% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistakaunting/akauntingGHSA-246r-r2wf-frhx (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2021/07/27/multiple-open-source-web-app-vulnerabilities-fixed/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.laravel-enlightn.com/docs/security/host-injection-analyzer.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/laravel/laravel/pull/5477 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
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)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-246r-r2wf-frhx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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