Comersus Cart 5.0.9 Price comersus_gatewayPayPal.asp privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Comersus Cart 5.0.9 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the file comersus_gatewayPayPal.asp of the component Price Handler. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-0682. Moreover, an exploit is present. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Comersus Cart 5.0.9 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file comersus_gatewayPayPal.asp of the component Price Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

comersus_gatewayPayPal.asp in Comersus Cart 5.09, and possibly other versions before 5.098, allows remote attackers to change the prices of items by directly modifying them in the URL.

The bug was discovered 07/07/2004. The weakness was disclosed 08/06/2004 by Thomas Ryan (Website). The advisory is available at marc.info. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-0682 since 07/12/2004. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 26 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:comersus_gatewayPayPal.asp it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14183 (Comersus Cart Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 12084 (Comersus Open Technologies Comersus Cart Multiple Vulnerabilities).

Upgrading to version 5.098 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (16645), Exploit-DB (24260), Tenable (14183), SecurityFocus (BID 10674†) and OSVDB (7597†). The entry VDB-22081 is pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Access: Public
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Nessus ID: 14183
Nessus Name: Comersus Cart Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS)
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OpenVAS ID: 12640
OpenVAS Name: Comersus Cart Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Cart 5.098

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07/12/2004 +5 days 🔍
08/02/2004 +21 days 🔍
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06/06/2006 +669 days 🔍
04/14/2015 +3234 days 🔍
07/12/2025 +3742 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.info
Researcher: Thomas Ryan
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-0682 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0682
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22082
X-Force: 16645
SecurityFocus: 10674 - Comersus Open Technologies Comersus Cart Multiple Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: 7597 - CVE-2004-0682 - Comersus Open Technologies - Comersus Cart - Modification Issue
Vulnerability Center: 11840 - Comersus Cart 5.09 Allows Remote Attackers to Change Prices of Items by Modifying Them in the URL, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 04/14/2015 13:16
Updated: 07/12/2025 17:19
Changes: 04/14/2015 13:16 (73), 06/20/2019 12:29 (4), 07/10/2024 12:07 (25), 07/12/2025 17:19 (5)
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