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Mercantec SoftCart CGI Overflow

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Disclosed
Aug 19, 2004
Created
May 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.

Authors

skape [email protected]
trew

Platform

BSDi

References

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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