CVE-2021-32648: October CMS Improper Authentication

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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name: October CMS Improper Authentication
Vendor: October CMS
Product: October CMS
Added to the catalog: 2022-01-18
Due date for US federal agencies: 2022-02-01
Weaknesses: CWE-287
Catalog version: 2026.10.30

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.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Ransomware use: CISA does not mark known use of this vulnerability in ransomware campaigns.

Links in CISA's notes

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

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NVD analysis

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2021-08-26T19:15:07.230
Last modified: 2026-06-17T03:53:20.713
Weaknesses: CWE-287, NVD-CWE-Other

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.

Metric	Score	Severity	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	8.2	HIGH	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N	[email protected] (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	9.1	CRITICAL	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	[email protected] (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	6.4	MEDIUM	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N	[email protected] (Primary)

References

https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374 (Patch)
https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9 (Patch)
https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/016a297b1bec55d2e53bc889458ed2cb5c3e9374 (Patch)
https://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/5bd1a28140b825baebe6becd4f7562299d3de3b9 (Patch)
https://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-32648 (US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Title (CNA): Account Takeover in Octobercms
Assigner: GitHub_M
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2021-08-26T19:00:12.000Z
Updated: 2025-10-21T23:25:36.099Z
Problem types: CWE-287: Improper Authentication

References

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Also known as / affected packages

GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc

Also known as: CVE-2021-32648. OSV.dev record, GitHub advisory.

Packagist october/system: introduced 0, fixed 1.0.472
Packagist october/system: introduced 1.1.1, fixed 1.1.5

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Defensive techniques (MITRE D3FEND)

D3FEND maps these defensive techniques to the weakness (CWE) that NVD lists for this CVE, through the digital artifacts the weakness affects. D3FEND does not say they stop this vulnerability.

CWE-287: Improper Authentication

Harden: Credential Scrubbing (acts on Subroutine)
Model: Software Inventory (acts on Software)
Isolate: User Account Permissions (acts on User Account)
Harden: Domain Logic Validation (acts on Subroutine)
Restore: Unlock Account (acts on User Account)
Harden: Trusted Library (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Agent Authentication (acts on User Account)
Restore: Restore User Account Access (acts on User Account)
Model: Asset Vulnerability Enumeration (acts on Software)
Isolate: Application-based Process Isolation (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Change Default Password (acts on User Account)
Restore: Restore Software (acts on Software)
Harden: Variable Initialization (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Software Update (acts on Software)
Model: Access Modeling (acts on User Account)
Evict: Account Locking (acts on User Account)

D3FEND ontology version 1.6.0.

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CISA
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GitHub Advisory Database via OSV.dev
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Cite this page

Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "CVE-2021-32648: October CMS Improper Authentication",
entity page, dataset version ref-0cfa148ca227, updated 2026-11-02T23:39:54.475Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/cve/CVE-2021-32648 (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: CISA Catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, version 2026.10.30.
Underlying source: National Vulnerability Database (NIST), CVE API 2.0, record last modified 2026-06-17T03:53:20.713.
Underlying source: CVE List (CVE Program, The MITRE Corporation), record updated 2025-10-21T23:25:36.099Z.
Underlying source: GitHub Advisory Database, GHSA-mxr5-mc97-63rc, via OSV.dev, modified 2026-07-08T06:00:14.285076028Z.
Underlying source: MITRE D3FEND, ontology version 1.6.0.

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