🛡️ CVE-2021-28128 — strapi

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-640 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password in Strapi

In Strapi through 3.6.0, the admin panel allows the changing of one's own password without entering the current password. An attacker who gains access to a valid session can use this to take over an account by changing the password.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-28128 is classified as CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism. The account recovery flow is easier to defeat than the password it protects.

Affected software

CVE-2021-28128 is recorded against 1 package.

  • strapi

Timeline and source

Published on 6 October 2021 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)
github.com (Web)
www.syss.de (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-640
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-10-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
strapi — —

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