CVE-2021-36804

Akaunting Password Reset Relay

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: August 4, 2021 at 10:20 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:59 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAkaunting

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1.0%

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.

Affected

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

v < 2.1.132.1.12
Affected range stops below 2.1.13, 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
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-640

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