How severe is CVE-2021-32648?

CVE-2021-32648 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.2 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 90.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2021-32648: Account Takeover in

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

October CMS Improper Authentication is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-01-18

Remediation due

2022-02-01

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32648

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA8.2 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impactpartial

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
octobercms	october	>= 1.0.471, < 1.0.472 >= 1.1.1, < 1.1.5

References

3 Links

Other references

Record Details

Published

2021-08-26

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

GitHub_M

Credited to

Related Tool Categories

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