OSCommerce Update.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:14294

Info

OSCommerce Update.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 14294
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 18 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 17 2006 11:32PM
Credit: Andrew Hunter <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: osCommerce osCommerce 2.2 ms2
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

OSCommerce Update.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

osCommerce is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to display the contents of any file normally readable by the webserver process.

Successful exploitation would result in information disclosure. Information obtained could aid the attacker in further attacks against the underlying system; other attacks are also possible.

This issue reportedly affects osCommerce version 2.2 milestone 2; other versions may also be vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

OSCommerce Update.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following proof-of-concept URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/catalog/extras/update.php?readme_file=/etc/passwd
http://www.example.com/catalog/extras/update.php?readme_file=../admin/.htaccess

Solution / Fix

OSCommerce Update.PHP Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Solution:

Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]:[email protected]

References

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