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SCA: security update for october/system (GHSA-h76r-vgf3-j6w5)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415557

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - octobercms in a CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In affected versions of the
 october/system package an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bypass authentication and takeover of
 and 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. The issue has been patched
 in Build 472 and v1.1.5. (CVE-2021-29487)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h76r-vgf3-j6w5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 415557

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-29487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/30/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-29487

cwe: CWE-287