PayPal Inc - Filter Bypass & Profile Code Execution

Document Title:
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PayPal Inc - Filter Bypass & Profile Code Execution


References:
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1275

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUksqtG2WrE



Release Date:
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2014-11-05


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
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1275


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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9.1


Discovery Status:
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Published


Exploitation Technique:
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Offensiv


Severity Level:
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Critical


Technical Details & Description:
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The video show the ending results of a successful code execution to the user profile values of the main paypal web-application webscr api request.
In the video Benjamin shows how does the effect looks like when somebody is able to inject code in the most important profile values.
To exploit the issue he used the help center accesspoint in combination to the developer api system.
The severity of the remote code execution is estimated as critical and has been reported to paypal inc in 2013Q3 by the vulnerability-lab team.


Credits & Authors:
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Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team] - Benjamin Kunz Mejri ([email protected]) [www.vulnerability-lab.com]


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