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Mercantec SoftCart CGI Overflow

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Mercantec SoftCart CGI Overflow

Disclosed
08/19/2004
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This is an exploit for an undisclosed buffer overflow in the SoftCart.exe CGI as shipped with Mercantec's shopping cart software. It is possible to execute arbitrary code by passing a malformed CGI parameter in an HTTP GET request. This issue is known to affect SoftCart version 4.00b.

Author(s)

  • skape <mmiller@hick.org>
  • trew

Platform

BSDi

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/bsdi/softcart/mercantec_softcart
msf exploit(mercantec_softcart) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(mercantec_softcart) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(mercantec_softcart) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(mercantec_softcart) > exploit

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