🛡️ CVE-2021-25994 — userfrosting

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-74 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Injection in UserFrosting

In Userfrosting, versions v0.3.1 to v4.6.2 are vulnerable to Host Header Injection. By luring a victim application user to click on a link, an unauthenticated attacker can use the “forgot password” functionality to reset the victim’s password and successfully take over their account.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2021-25994 is recorded against 1 package.

  • userfrosting/userfrosting (from 0.3.1 up to 4.6.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 January 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
www.whitesourcesoftware.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-74
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-01-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
userfrosting/userfrosting 0.3.1 4.6.3

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