01 Record
CVE-2021-21265
October CMS vulnerable to Potential Host Header Poisoning on misconfigured servers
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score6.8 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
02 Description
October CMS vulnerable to Potential Host Header Poisoning on misconfigured servers
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.74% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 77.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-03-10 21:15Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-05-29 23:27Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-12-22
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.8)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-644Improper Neutralization of HTTP Headers for Scripting SyntaxVariant
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f932c5313e7821b6c9a0b195aa305a2b33982d7b19a55af010824b42b7a48d8a
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/octobercms/october/security/advisories/GHSA-xhfx-hgmf-v6vp
- github.comhttps://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/f29865ae3db7a03be7c49294cd93980ec457f10d
- github.comhttps://github.com/octobercms/library/commit/f86fcbcd066d6f8b939e8fe897409d152b11c3c6
- github.comhttps://github.com/octobercms/october/commit/555ab61f2313f45d7d5d138656420ead536c5d30
- github.comhttps://github.com/octobercms/october/commit/f638d3f78cfe91d7f6658820f9d5e424306a3db0
- packagist.orghttps://packagist.org/packages/october/backend