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Zen Cart Session Fixation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA25942
Release Date: 2007-07-05
Last Update: 2007-07-11
Popularity: 6,638 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Hijacking
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Zen Cart 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-3597


Description:
Tomaz Bratusa has discovered a vulnerability in Zen Cart, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct session fixation attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of sessions in the administrative section and can be exploited to hijack another user's session by tricking the user into logging in after following a specially crafted link.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.3.7.

Solution:
Update to zen-cart-v1.3.7-full-patched-07012007.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=83781

Provided and/or discovered by:
Tomaz Bratusa

Changelog:
2007-07-11: Added CVE reference.


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