CVE-2020-15128

Reliance on Cookies without validation in OctoberCMS

MEDIUM
6.3
CVSS Score
Published: July 31, 2020 at 05:45 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:56 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOctober

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Severity
MEDIUM6.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%

Description

In OctoberCMS before version 1.0.468, encrypted cookie values were not tied to the name of the cookie the value belonged to. This meant that certain classes of attacks that took advantage of other theoretical vulnerabilities in user facing code (nothing exploitable in the core project itself) had a higher chance of succeeding. Specifically, if your usage exposed a way for users to provide unfiltered user input and have it returned to them as an encrypted cookie (ex. storing a user provided search query in a cookie) they could then use the generated cookie in place of other more tightly controlled cookies; or if your usage exposed the plaintext version of an encrypted cookie at any point to the user they could theoretically provide encrypted content from your application back to it as an encrypted cookie and force the framework to decrypt it for them. Issue has been fixed in build 468 (v1.0.468).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.0.468
Affected range stops below 1.0.468, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-565CWE-327

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