Overview
osCommerce 2.3.1 and possibly other versions with the PayPal website payments standard module 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 osCommerce 2.3.1 using the PayPal website payments standard module 1.0 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
Apply an Update osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.4 and v1.1 of the payment module will be released to address this issue. If you are unable to update, please consider the following workaround. |
Enable Encrypted Web Payments in the payment module configuration. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | 5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| Temporal | 4 | E:POC/RL:U/RC:UC |
| Environmental | 4 | CDP:ND/TD:ND/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Giancarlo Pellegrino of SAP Research for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jared Allar.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2012-2991 |
| Date Public: | 2012-09-17 |
| Date First Published: | 2012-09-18 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2013-05-15 19:29 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 23 |