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Vulnerability record · CVE-2021-36804 · published 4 August 2021

CVE-2021-36804: Akaunting weak password recovery vulnerability

Akaunting · Akaunting

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.

8.1 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 0.96% · top 40.1% CWE-640 · Weak password recovery
8.1CVSS 3.1 base score, v2 5.8
0.96%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
6References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/pull/5477 Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.laravel-enlightn.com/docs/security/host-injection-analyzer.html Third Party Advisory
https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2021/07/27/multiple-open-source-web-app-vulnerabilities-fixed/ ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/pull/5477 Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.laravel-enlightn.com/docs/security/host-injection-analyzer.html Third Party Advisory
https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2021/07/27/multiple-open-source-web-app-vulnerabilities-fixed/ ExploitThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2021-36804), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.