Vulnerability Note VU#583564

CS-Cart v3.0.4 configured with PayPal Standard Payments design vulnerability

Original Release date: 22 Feb 2013 | Last revised: 22 Feb 2013

Overview

CS-Cart v3.0.4 and possibly other versions configured with PayPal Standard Payment is susceptible to a client-side attack that results in an attacker purchasing items without having to pay for them.

Description

It has been reported that CS-Cart v3.0.4 configured with PayPal Standard Payments contains a design flaw that allows an attacker to buy items without having to pay for them. The parameter for the merchant's PayPal email address is controlled on the client-side and not verified by the server. This allows an attacker to change the PayPal email address to one the attacker controls allowing the attacker to purchase items on a website but effectively pay themselves instead of the merchant. Manual verification of website orders with the PayPal transactions would need to be performed to detect this fraud.

Impact

An attacker can effectively purchase items without paying the merchant for them.

Solution

Update

The vendor has stated that this vulnerability has been addressed in CS-Cart version 3.0.6. They have also released the security patch for the older versions (3.0.x & 2.2.x).

Vendor Information (Learn More)

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
CS-CartAffected24 Jan 201318 Feb 2013
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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

Group Score Vector
Base 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
Temporal 4.7 E:U/RL:OF/RC:UC
Environmental 1.3 CDP:L/TD:L/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND

References

Credit

Thanks to Giancarlo Pellegrino Institute Eurecom and SAP Research for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Michael Orlando.

Other Information

  • CVE IDs: CVE-2013-0118
  • Date Public: 15 Feb 2013
  • Date First Published: 22 Feb 2013
  • Date Last Updated: 22 Feb 2013
  • Document Revision: 11

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