phpBB End of Life (EOL) Detection
🗓️ 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AGType
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:phpbb:phpbb";
if( description )
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.112836");
script_version("2026-05-21T06:54:30+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2026-05-21 06:54:30 +0000 (Thu, 21 May 2026)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-11-10 14:17:12 +0000 (Tue, 10 Nov 2020)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"Greenbone");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-11-10 00:00:00 +0000 (Tue, 10 Nov 2020)");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("phpBB End of Life (EOL) Detection");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_phpbb_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("phpbb/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The installed version of phpBB on the remote host has reached
the End of Life (EOL) and should not be used anymore.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An EOL version of phpBB is not receiving any security updates from
the vendor. Unfixed security vulnerabilities might be leveraged by an attacker to compromise the security of
this host.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update phpBB on the remote host to a still supported version.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if an EOL version is present on the target host.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2373956");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&p=14902381#p14902381");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2573411");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1385785");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("date_func.inc");
include("eol_product.inc");
include("eol_shared.inc");
include("list_array_func.inc");
if(!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if(ret = product_reached_eol(cpe: CPE, version: version)) {
report = eol_build_message(name: "phpBB", cpe: CPE, version: version,
location: location,
eol_version: ret["eol_version"],
eol_date: ret["eol_date"],
eol_type: "prod");
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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