Summary
A remotely reachable authentication weakness affects the login form in AdithyaYelloju Restaurant-Management-System. Manipulation of email or password handling may allow an attacker to bypass intended authentication checks and access functionality without valid credentials.
A remotely reachable authentication weakness affects the login form in AdithyaYelloju Restaurant-Management-System. Manipulation of email or password handling may allow an attacker to bypass intended authentication checks and access functionality without valid credentials.
Affected context
The vulnerability occurs in the application's User/login.php login component when user-supplied email and password values are processed without reliably enforcing authentication requirements. Deployments that expose this login endpoint over a network may be at risk, particularly where additional access controls or monitoring do not constrain repeated authentication attempts.
The vulnerability occurs in the application's User/login.php login component when user-supplied email and password values are processed without reliably enforcing authentication requirements. Deployments that expose this login endpoint over a network may be at risk, particularly where additional access controls or monitoring do not constrain repeated authentication attempts.
Exploit preconditions
- Attack surface: The remotely accessible login form in
User/login.php - Required access: Network access to the application's login endpoint; valid credentials may not be required if authentication checks can be bypassed
- Trigger point: Processing of attacker-controlled
emailandpasswdparameters during login - Why exploitation is possible: Authentication decisions may not correctly verify the submitted identity and password before granting access
- Attack surface: The remotely accessible login form in
User/login.php - Required access: Network access to the application's login endpoint; valid credentials may not be required if authentication checks can be bypassed
- Trigger point: Processing of attacker-controlled
emailandpasswdparameters during login - Why exploitation is possible: Authentication decisions may not correctly verify the submitted identity and password before granting access
Why this happens
The underlying issue is improper authentication, mapped to CWE-287. The login workflow appears to trust or inadequately validate authentication input, allowing the application to reach an authenticated state without consistently establishing that the requester has supplied valid credentials. This represents a failure to enforce an effective identity-verification boundary.
The underlying issue is improper authentication, mapped to CWE-287. The login workflow appears to trust or inadequately validate authentication input, allowing the application to reach an authenticated state without consistently establishing that the requester has supplied valid credentials. This represents a failure to enforce an effective identity-verification boundary.
Potential impact
- An attacker may gain unauthorized access to user or administrative functionality.
- Account data or application records could be viewed or modified.
- Attackers could impersonate legitimate users.
- The vulnerability could support further abuse of exposed management features.
- An attacker may gain unauthorized access to user or administrative functionality.
- Account data or application records could be viewed or modified.
- Attackers could impersonate legitimate users.
- The vulnerability could support further abuse of exposed management features.
General mitigation guidance
Mitigation generally focuses on making authentication decisions explicit, centralized, and secure by default.
Common defensive patterns include:
- Validate credentials through a well-tested authentication mechanism rather than ad hoc parameter handling.
- Treat all login parameters as untrusted and enforce strict input validation and normalization.
- Ensure access is granted only after successful server-side verification of the intended identity and password.
- Use consistent failure handling that does not disclose whether an account exists.
- Apply least privilege to authenticated sessions and administrative roles.
- Add rate limiting, multifactor authentication where appropriate, and session protections as layered controls.
- Require security-focused tests for authentication bypass conditions in CI and deployment policies.
Mitigation generally focuses on making authentication decisions explicit, centralized, and secure by default.
Common defensive patterns include:
- Validate credentials through a well-tested authentication mechanism rather than ad hoc parameter handling.
- Treat all login parameters as untrusted and enforce strict input validation and normalization.
- Ensure access is granted only after successful server-side verification of the intended identity and password.
- Use consistent failure handling that does not disclose whether an account exists.
- Apply least privilege to authenticated sessions and administrative roles.
- Add rate limiting, multifactor authentication where appropriate, and session protections as layered controls.
- Require security-focused tests for authentication bypass conditions in CI and deployment policies.
How teams detect issues like this
Detection can combine static analysis, code review, and runtime monitoring:
- Search for login branches that grant sessions or privileges without a definitive credential-verification result.
- Review uses of
emailandpasswdparameters for missing validation, inconsistent comparisons, or client-side-only checks. - Test authentication failure, empty-input, malformed-input, and boundary cases using authorized security testing.
- Monitor logs for repeated failed attempts, unusual successful logins, and access from unexpected locations.
- Enforce code-review policies requiring centralized authentication logic and negative authentication tests.
- Automated security scanners and review tools may help identify exposed login endpoints and suspicious authentication control flow.
Detection can combine static analysis, code review, and runtime monitoring:
- Search for login branches that grant sessions or privileges without a definitive credential-verification result.
- Review uses of
emailandpasswdparameters for missing validation, inconsistent comparisons, or client-side-only checks. - Test authentication failure, empty-input, malformed-input, and boundary cases using authorized security testing.
- Monitor logs for repeated failed attempts, unusual successful logins, and access from unexpected locations.
- Enforce code-review policies requiring centralized authentication logic and negative authentication tests.
- Automated security scanners and review tools may help identify exposed login endpoints and suspicious authentication control flow.
Sources
| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| github. | github.com/ |
| github. | github.com/ |
| vuldb. | vuldb.com/ |
| vuldb. | vuldb.com/ |
| vuldb. | vuldb.com/ |
| vuldb. | vuldb.com/ |
