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TITLE:
Qualiteam X-Cart cmpi.php Variable Overwriting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22005

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CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Qualiteam X-Cart Pro 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/11995/
Qualiteam X-Cart Gold 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/5181/

DESCRIPTION:
James Bercegay has reported a vulnerability in Qualiteam X-Cart,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in cmpi.php and allows
overwriting arbitrary variables. This can be exploited to e.g.
include arbitrary files from local or external resources by
overwriting certain configuration variables.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 4.1.3. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Reportedly, this has been fixed in an updated version of X-Cart.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
James Bercegay, GulfTech Security Research Team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00113-09182006&

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