Security advisory
Cachet is an open source status page system. Prior to version 2.5.1, authenticated users, regardless of their privileges (User or Admin), can leak the value of any configuration entry of the dotenv file, e.g. the application secret (`APP_KEY`) and various passwords (email, database, etc). This issue was addressed in version 2.5.1 by improving `UpdateConfigCommandHandler` and preventing the use of nested variables in the resulting dotenv configuration file. As a workaround, only allow trusted source IP addresses to access to the administration dashboard.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-39174
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Cachet is an open source status page system. Prior to version 2.5.1, authenticated users, regardless of their privileges (User or Admin), can leak the value of any configuration entry of the dotenv file, e.g. the application secret (`APP_KEY`) and various passwords (email, database, etc). This issue was addressed in version 2.5.1 by improving `UpdateConfigCommandHandler` and preventing the use of nested variables in the resulting dotenv configuration file. As a workaround, only allow trusted source IP addresses to access to the administration dashboard.
osv:CVE-2021-39174
Complete source record
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"summary": "Cachet is an open source status page system. Prior to version 2.5.1, authenticated users, regardless of their privileges (User or Admin), can leak the value of any configuration entry of the dotenv file, e.g. the application secret (`APP_KEY`) and various passwords (email, database, etc). This issue was addressed in version 2.5.1 by improving `UpdateConfigCommandHandler` and preventing the use of nested variables in the resulting dotenv configuration file. As a workaround, only allow trusted source IP addresses to access to the administration dashboard.",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:53.783379755Z",
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"references": [
"https://github.com/fiveai/Cachet/releases/tag/v2.5.1",
"https://github.com/fiveai/Cachet/security/advisories/GHSA-88f9-7xxh-c688",
"https://blog.sonarsource.com/cachet-code-execution-via-laravel-configuration-injection/"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-08-28T00:15:06.917+00:00"
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