{"id":"CVE-2018-10362","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-10362","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:05:22.850Z","title":"Hence the attacker can login with just a '0' or a simple number he has to brute force.","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.","published":"2018-04-25T05:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:33:54.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-287"],"affected":["phpliteadmin/phpliteadmin"],"epss":{"score":0.01495,"percentile":0.7404,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.49%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://k3research.outerhaven.de/posts/small-mistakes-lead-to-big-problems.html","tags":["Technical Description","Third Party Advisory","URL Repurposed"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/phpLiteAdmin/pla/issues/11","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://k3research.outerhaven.de/posts/small-mistakes-lead-to-big-problems.html","tags":["Technical Description","Third Party Advisory","URL Repurposed"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/phpLiteAdmin/pla/issues/11","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10362","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}