Bytes Interactive Web Shopper Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	1776
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	Yes
Published:	Oct 08 2000 12:00AM
Updated:	Oct 08 2000 12:00AM
Credit:	Posted to Bugtraq on October 8, 2000 by f0bic <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable:	Bytes Interactive Web Shopper 2.0 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 - Redhat Linux 7.0 - Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc - Redhat Linux 6.2 i386 - Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha - Sun Solaris 8_sparc - Sun Solaris 7.0 Bytes Interactive Web Shopper 1.0 - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 - Redhat Linux 7.0 - Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc - Redhat Linux 6.2 i386 - Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha - Sun Solaris 8_sparc - Sun Solaris 7.0
Not Vulnerable:

Bytes Interactive Web Shopper Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bytes Interactive Web Shopper is a XML based shopping cart application.

The "newpage" variable does not properly check for insecure relative paths such as the double dot "..".

The following URL request:

http://target/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?newpage=../../../path/filename.ext

will yield the file specified.

Successful exploitation could lead to a remote intruder gaining read access to any known file.

Bytes Interactive Web Shopper Directory Traversal Vulnerability

http://target/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?newpage=../../../path/filename.ext

Bytes Interactive Web Shopper Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently the SecurityFocus staff 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].

Bytes Interactive Web Shopper Directory Traversal Vulnerability

References:

• Bytes Interactive Homepage (Bytes Interactive)