Alstrasoft Epay Pro 2.0 and prior Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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      HYA-2005-008 h4cky0u.org Advisory 008
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Date - Mon Sep 19 2005


TITLE:
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Alstrasoft Epay Pro 2.0 and prior Directory Traversal Vulnerability


SEVERITY:
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Medium


SOFTWARE:
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Alstrasoft EPay Pro v2.0 and prior


INFO:
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EPay Pro is the ultimate software solution for those who wish to run their own  Paypal, Stormpay, or e-gold type of 
online business. Epay Pro comes with a ready out of the box website with all the features you need to run your own 
payment gateway system.

Support Website : http://www.alstrasoft.com/epay.htm


BUG DESCRIPTION:
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EPay Pro version 2.0 and prior are vulnerable caused by an improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote 
attacker could embed in the index.php etc/passwd containing embedded code in the payment or send parameter which, once 
the link is clicked, would be executed to see passwords within the security context of the hosting server. An attacker 
could use this vulnerability to see all the victim's password authentication credentials.


POC:
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Here is an example:

http://targeturl/index.php?read=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd


VENDOR STATUS:
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Vendor has been contacted but no response recieved till date.


FIX:
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No fix available as of date.


CREDITS:
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This vulnerability was discovered and researched by
GeMe-GeMeS of h4cky0u Security Forums.


mail : GeMeGeMeS at Gmail.Com

web : http://www.h4cky0u.org


ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
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http://www.h4cky0u.org/advisories/HYA-2005-008-alstrasoft-epay-pro.txt