Improper Authentication Affecting october/rain package, versions <1.1.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-OCTOBERRAIN-1570167
  • published27 Aug 2021
  • disclosed27 Aug 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-29487  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade october/rain to version 1.1.5 or higher.

Overview

october/rain is an October Rain Library.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and takeover of a 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.

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