CVE-2021-36804

MEDIUM

Akaunting < 2.1.13 - Password Reset Spoofing via Proxy Header Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (3)

Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/pull/5477

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.0096
EPSS Percentile 56.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-640
Status published
Products (2)
akaunting/akaunting < 2.1.13
akaunting/akaunting 0 - 2.1.13Packagist
Published Aug 04, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026