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CVE-2018-10362

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

An issue was discovered in phpLiteAdmin 1.9.5 through 1.9.7.1. Due to loose comparison with '==' instead of '===' in classes/Authorization.php for the user-provided login password, it is possible to login with a simpler password if the password has the form of a power in scientific notation (like '2e2' for '200' or '0e1234' for '0'). This is possible because, in the loose comparison case, PHP interprets the string as a number in scientific notation, and thus converts it to a number. After that, the comparison with '==' casts the user input (e.g., the string '200' or '0') to a number, too. Hence the attacker can login with just a '0' or a simple number he has to brute force. Strong comparison with '===' prevents the cast into numbers.

Affected products

• Phpliteadmin: from 1.9.5 through 1.9.7.1

References

• http://k3research.outerhaven.de/posts/small-mistakes-lead-to-big-problems.html
• https://github.com/phpLiteAdmin/pla/issues/11
• http://k3research.outerhaven.de/posts/small-mistakes-lead-to-big-problems.html
• https://github.com/phpLiteAdmin/pla/issues/11

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