[KEV] Authentication Bypass in October cms october/system (CVE-2021-32648)
Summary
Authentication bypass in October cms october/system (CVE-2021-32648). Confidential information can be exposed externally. Listed in CISA KEV — actively exploited. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.1.5 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities NVD GitHub Advisory CISA KEV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-32648 has been found in October cms october/system.
Confidential information can be exposed externally.
Note: CISA has officially confirmed this is actively exploited in the wild. Treat it with elevated urgency.
What to do: upgrade October cms october/system to 1.1.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "October cms october/system CVE-2021-32648" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2021-32648 (October cms october/system) — CWE-287
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 1.1.5 — apply immediately
Listed in CISA KEV — actively exploited, treat as top priority.
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Authentication bypass (CWE-287) exists in October cms october/system.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of October cms october/system.
Severity: High. Confidential information can be exposed externally. Listed in CISA KEV — actively exploited in the wild, treat as top priority.
Update to 1.1.5.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'october/system' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'october/system' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
october/systemを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Consider incident declaration escalate
Notify SOC / on-callCISA KEV登録済 = 実環境で悪用が観測されている。侵入の兆候があればインシデント対応宣言、無くてもパッチ適用までWAF強化を最優先で。
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3Apply patch patch
Upgrade October cms october/system to 1.1.5ステージング環境で 1.1.5 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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4Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- patch github.com
- patch github.com
- patch github.com
- web cisa.gov