What is CVE-2021-36804?

CVE-2021-36804 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Akaunting, classified under Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2021-08-04.

How severe is CVE-2021-36804?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Akaunting

CVE-2021-36804

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.

EPSS: 0.010 (57.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Akaunting — versions 2.1.12

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-640 — Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

References

cve@rapid7.com (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@rapid7.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@rapid7.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-36804?: CVE-2021-36804 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Akaunting, classified under Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2021-08-04.
How severe is CVE-2021-36804?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.