phpLiteAdmin Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:phpliteadmin_project:phpliteadmin";

if (description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.141018");
  script_version("2025-09-05T15:40:40+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-05 15:40:40 +0000 (Fri, 05 Sep 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-04-24 09:02:06 +0700 (Tue, 24 Apr 2018)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-06-13 11:34:00 +0000 (Wed, 13 Jun 2018)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-10362");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"Mitigation");

  script_name("phpLiteAdmin Authentication Bypass Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Web application abuses");
  script_dependencies("gb_phpliteadmin_detect.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("phpliteadmin/installed");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"phpLiteAdmin is prone to an authentication bypass vulnerability.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The attemptGrant function of the Authorization class uses a wrong comparison.
This can lead to a problem if the password is a number written in scientific notation.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker may bypass the authentication if the password for a user starts
with a number.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"phpLiteAdmin version 1.9.5 until 1.9.7.1.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Apply the patch.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/phpLiteAdmin/pla/issues/11");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
  exit(0);

if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, port: port))
  exit(0);

if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "1.9.5", test_version2: "1.9.7.1")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "Apply patch");
  security_message(port: port, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);