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CVE-2021-32648

9.1, critical Known exploited

October CMS Improper Authentication

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CVSS
9.1, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
90% higher than 99.8% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
26 Aug 20215 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 18 Jan 2022. US federal agencies had to remediate by 1 Feb 2022, a deadline that has passed.

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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.

Details

Vendor
October CMS
Product
october
Weakness
CWE-287 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
security-advisories@github.com

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

References 4

Patches and fixes 3

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.