Known Exploited Vulnerability

CVE-2021-32648

October CMS Improper Authentication

Past federal due date 19 public exploits Added 18 Jan 2022 Due 01 Feb 2022 · 1648 days ago
VendorOctober CMS
ProductOctober CMS
WeaknessCWE-287
RansomwareNone confirmed

What the flaw is

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.

Description as published by CISA. We have not independently reproduced it.

What CISA requires

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

This deadline is binding on US federal civilian agencies under BOD 22-01. It is not a legal deadline for anyone else, but it is a useful urgency signal — CISA sets it by how actively the flaw is being used, not by CVSS.

Public exploit code

19 public repositories referencing this CVE have been catalogued on GitHub. Treat this as a strong signal to prioritise patching, not as a verified working exploit — many such repositories are scanners, write-ups or forks rather than functional code.

Showing 8 of 19. Full list in the trickest/cve dataset.

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