CVE-2021-36804 Akaunting Password Reset Relay

What is CVE-2021-36804?

CVE-2021-36804 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Akaunting, published on 4 Aug 2021.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-640

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-36804?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including akaunting/akaunting. It affects 1 product.

Products include Akaunting Akaunting.

How do I fix CVE-2021-36804?

Upgrade akaunting/akaunting to 2.1.13 or later.

Is CVE-2021-36804 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-36804 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Akaunting

• CVE-2024-22836 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-22390 Code injection in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2021-36800 Akaunting OS Command Injection in 'Money.php' High 8.7
• CVE-2021-36801 Akaunting Authentication Bypass in Company Selection High 8.1
• CVE-2025-55521 Denial of service in n/a Medium 6.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-246r-r2wf-frhx.