RemoteClinic 2.0 Requests staff/register.php access control

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A vulnerability has been found in RemoteClinic 2.0 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function of the file staff/register.php of the component Requests Handler. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-33480. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in RemoteClinic 2.0. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the file staff/register.php of the component Requests Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

RemoteClinic 2.0 contains a critical vulnerability chain that can be exploited by a remote attacker with low-privileged user credentials to create admin users, escalate privileges, and execute arbitrary code on the target system via a PHP shell. The vulnerabilities are caused by a lack of input validation and access control in the staff/register.php endpoint and the edit-my-profile.php page. By sending a series of specially crafted requests to the RemoteClinic application, an attacker can create admin users with more privileges than their own, upload a PHP file containing arbitrary code, and execute arbitrary commands via the PHP shell.

The weakness was released 11/07/2023 as 24. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-33480 since 05/22/2023. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/04/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:staff/register.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-37643). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• RemoteClinic

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• 2.0

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• Product: https://github.com/remoteclinic/RemoteClinic/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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