LiteCart 2.1.2 not_found.log Request resource consumption

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in LiteCart 2.1.2. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file public_html/logs/not_found.log. The manipulation as part of Request leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-10827. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in LiteCart 2.1.2 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code of the file public_html/logs/not_found.log. The manipulation as part of a Request leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

LiteCart 2.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via URIs that do not exist, because public_html/logs/not_found.log grows without bound, and is loaded into memory for each request.

The bug was discovered 05/07/2018. The weakness was disclosed 05/09/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-10827 since 05/08/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:public_html/logs/not_found.log it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• LiteCart

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• 2.1.2

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• Product: https://github.com/litecart/litecart/

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