CVE-2021-36804 (GCVE-0-2021-36804)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-04 22:20 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:04
VLAI
Title
Akaunting Password Reset Relay
Summary
Akaunting version 2.1.12 and earlier suffers from a password reset spoofing vulnerability, wherein an attacker can proxy password reset requests through a running Akaunting instance, if that attacker knows the target's e-mail address. This issue was fixed in version 2.1.13 of the product. Please note that this issue is ultimately caused by the defaults provided by the Laravel framework, specifically how proxy headers are handled with respect to multi-tenant implementations. In other words, while this is not technically a vulnerability in Laravel, this default configuration is very likely to lead to practically identical identical vulnerabilities in Laravel projects that implement multi-tenant applications.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-640 - Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
Assigner
rapid7 CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 78 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Akaunting Akaunting Affected: 2.1.12 , ≤ 2.1.12 (custom)
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Date Public
2021-07-27 00:00
Credits
Wiktor Sędkowski of Nokia and Trevor Christiansen of Rapid7 discovered and reported this issue through Rapid7's vulnerability disclosure program.
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