CVE-2021-44160
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCarinal Tien Hospital Health Report System’s login page has improper authentication, a remote attacker can acquire another general user’s privilege by modifying the cookie parameter without authentication. The attacker can then perform limited operations on the system or modify data, making the service partially unavailable to the user.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceThe Carinal Tien Hospital Health Report System's login page has improper authentication that allows remote attackers to elevate privileges by manipulating cookie parameters. An attacker can modify cookie values to impersonate another general user without valid credentials, enabling limited operations and data modification.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE dataall versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify the Carinal Tien Hospital Health Report System installationSearch for the application by checking running web services, reviewing installed software lists, or scanning for the application's login page on common web ports (80, 443, 8080). Look for pages referencing 'cth' or 'carinal tien hospital' or 'health report system'.Affected if The Carinal Tien Hospital Health Report System is found running or installed on the network/server.
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Verify cookie-based authentication is in useAccess the application's login page and authenticate with any valid credentials. After login, inspect the HTTP response headers and browser developer tools (Application/Storage tab) to identify authentication cookies. Look for session cookies or custom cookies used for user identification.Affected if The application sets cookies that appear to contain user identity information (such as user IDs, usernames, or role identifiers) rather than using server-generated opaque session tokens.
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Test cookie parameter manipulationAfter logging in as a general user, capture the authentication cookie(s). Modify the cookie values (such as user ID, username, or role fields) to different values. Send the modified cookie in requests to the application and observe if access is granted to other user accounts or elevated privileges are obtained.Affected if Modifying cookie values allows impersonation of other users or grants access to unauthorized functionality without valid credentials.
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Check for server-side session validationReview the application's authentication mechanism architecture. Examine whether the server validates cookie integrity cryptographically (such as with HMAC signatures) or merely reads cookie values as trusted user data without verification.Affected if The application trusts cookie values without cryptographic integrity checks or server-side validation.
The environment is affected if the Carinal Tien Hospital Health Report System is deployed and uses cookie-based authentication where cookie values can be modified to impersonate other users without proper server-side validation.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement proper server-side cookie/session validation with cryptographic integrity checks, enforce strict authorization controls, and replace the vulnerable cookie-based authentication with a robust session management mechanism using secure, server-generated session identifiers.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
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- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
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