ZH2003-17SA (security advisory): geeeekShop Shopping Cart Path Disclosure

Published: 9 august 2003

Released: 9 august 2003

Name: geeeekShop Shopping Cart System

Affected Systems: 1.4.0

Issue: Remote attackers can know the path of the site

Author: G00db0y (at) zone-h (dot) org [email concealed]

Vendor: http://www.geeeeksoft.com

Description

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Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in geeeekShop Shopping Cart

v1.4.0. "geeeekShop is a PHP / MySQL based shopping cart system that is

easy enough for somebody who is new to the internet but powerful enough

for the seasoned veteran."

Details

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It's possible to make a malformed http request for many files in

geeeekShop 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/?category=xxxxxx&parent=0&page=x&/'

If we do a simple http request for many files in geeeekShop Shopping Cart

we

will have the same problem.

Example:

http://www.site.com/shop/php_files/site.config.php

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=2853/

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