Malicious password-reset in Akaunting
Impact
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…
Source excerpt · OSVAffected packages
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| Affected range | Recorded fix |
|---|---|
| Earlier releases before 2.1.13Ecosystem versions | 2.1.13 |
Version evidence: OSV · GHSA-246r-r2wf-frhx
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Original source description
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.
References
- Security advisory nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36804
- Patch github.com/laravel/laravel/pull/5477
- Source reference github.com/laravel/laravel
- Release notes github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/75a7dba9c44ce3555cc57dd1826467839fd9774f/CHANGELOG.md
- Security advisory www.laravel-enlightn.com/docs/security/host-injection-analyzer.html
- Security advisory www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2021/07/27/multiple-open-source-web-app-vulnerabilities-fixed