ZH2003-16SA (security advisory): C-Cart Shopping Cart Path Disclosure

[G00db0y <G00db0y@zone-h.org>]

ZH2003-16SA (security advisory): C-Cart Shopping Cart Path Disclosure


Published: 8 august 2003

Released: 8 august 2003

Name: C-Cart 

Affected Systems: 1.0

Issue: Remote attackers can know the path of the site

Author: G00db0y@zone-h.org

Vendor: http://www.polyspaston.com

Description

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Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in C-Cart Shopping Cart
v1.0. C-Cart is "a powerful yet simple shopping cart written in PHP 
with a MySQL database to store the product details".



Details

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It's possible to make a malformed http request for many files in
C-Cart Shopping Cart and in doing so trigger an error. 
The resulting error message will disclose potentially sensitive 
installation 
path information to the remote attacker.

Example:

http://www.site.com/shop/search.php?q='
http://www.site.com/shop/show.php?q='



Solution:

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The vendor has been contacted and a patch is not yet produced.


Suggestions:

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Filter all files. 


G00db0y - www.zone-h.org admin

Original advisory here: http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2851/