Attack ChainAIDerived
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AccessLocate exposed HospitalManagementSystem instance
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ExploitSend crafted request to php/sessions.php
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ExecutionManipulate ID argument to bypass authentication
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ImpactAccess unauthorized session/account data
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Authentication mechanism validation
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Defense Evasion, Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires network reachability to a deployed HospitalManagementSystem instance and the ability to send requests to php/sessions.php with a manipulated ID argument; no authentication (PR:N) and no user interaction (UI:N) are needed, so any internet-exposed instance running code up to commit 9ef91ed6007314b6473110ed699dff76d158f61d is reachable. The practical limiter is not configuration but deployment: this is a niche open-source project unlikely to be exposed at scale, no patched release exists (rolling release, unresponsive maintainer), and the disclosed impact is limited to confidentiality (VC:L) rather than full account takeover or data modification. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity authentication flaw (CVSS 4.0 base 5.5) in a hobbyist GitHub hospital-management PHP application, and the signals point to a low real-world priority despite the network-exploitable vector. The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N) describes a remote, low-complexity, unauthenticated attack requiring no user interaction, but impact is constrained to low confidentiality only (VC:L, VI:N, VA:N) - no integrity or availability effect is claimed, which caps the severity. Exploit maturity is Proof-of-Concept (E:P), consistent with the description's statement that an exploit has been publicly disclosed; this is POC availability, not confirmed active exploitation. There is no CISA KEV listing and no EPSS score in the provided data, so widespread or targeted exploitation cannot be asserted. The dominant mitigating factor is prevalence: this is an obscure, single-author rolling-release project with no meaningful enterprise footprint, and the vendor has not responded to the issue report, so no patch version exists. Net assessment: a genuine unauthenticated auth weakness, but low operational priority for most defenders because of the product's rarity and the limited (confidentiality-only) impact. Note the conflict between CWE-287 'improper authentication' (which often implies an auth bypass with broader impact) and the assigned VC:L/VI:N/VA:N vector - verify the true impact against the source advisory. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote, unauthenticated attacker manipulates the ID argument handled by php/sessions.php to subvert the application's authentication logic and gain access to session or account context they should not have. Because a proof-of-concept has been publicly disclosed, an attacker can reproduce the technique directly; the low attack complexity and absence of required user interaction make the request trivial to send against an exposed instance. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 02, 2026
Improper authentication in onetwothreeneth HospitalManagementSystem (rolling release, code up to commit 9ef91ed6007314b6473110ed699dff76d158f61d) allows unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass authentication by manipulating the ID argument in php/sessions.php. The flaw is rated medium severity (CVSS 4.0 base 5.5, CWE-287) with limited confidentiality impact, and publicly available exploit code exists, though the project is niche and likely to have low real-world exploitation priority.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis; the maintainer was informed early via an issue report but has not responded, and because the project uses rolling releases there is no fixed version to reference. Until an upstream fix is published, restrict or block external access to php/sessions.php at the reverse proxy or WAF layer - the trade-off is that legitimate session handling may break if the endpoint is used by normal application flows. Where the application is deployed, place it behind an authenticated gateway or limit it to trusted internal networks, recognizing this reduces exposure but impacts legitimate remote users. Monitor the vendor issue at https://github.com/onetwothreeneth/HospitalManagementSystem/issues/6 and VULDB entries at https://vuldb.com/vuln/412926 for updates, and if maintaining a fork, audit php/sessions.php to enforce server-side validation of the ID argument against the authenticated session rather than trusting client-supplied identifiers. Do not apply unverified third-party patches; no exact fixed version can be cited from available data.
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The affected component is a PHP-based hospital management application whose php/sessions.php script handles session-related logic; the vulnerable function is unknown, but the manipulation of the ID argument results in improper authentication (CWE-287), meaning the application fails to verify that a session identifier belongs to an authenticated user before trusting it. Because the CVSS 4.0 vector is AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N, the flaw is reachable over the network without authentication or user interaction, and the VC:L rating indicates the disclosed impact is limited to low confidentiality loss rather than full account takeover or data modification. No CPE strings were provided in the input, so affected product identification relies on the GitHub repository and VULDB references; tags classify this as PHP and Authentication Bypass. The independent assessment aligns with this view, noting that the practical limiter is deployment exposure of a niche open-source project, not configuration complexity.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Remote unauthenticated request to a web endpoint (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); impact aligned to the supplied confidentiality-only effect (C:L), with I:N/A:N as no integrity or availability impact is claimed.
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CVSS VectorVendor: vuldb
DescriptionCVE.org
A security vulnerability has been detected in onetwothreeneth HospitalManagementSystem up to 9ef91ed6007314b6473110ed699dff76d158f61d. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file php/sessions.php. The manipulation of the argument ID leads to improper authentication. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. This product follows a rolling release approach for continuous delivery, so version details for affected or updated releases are not provided. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.
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