Paypal Bug Bounty #8 - CSRF DEV Web Vulnerability

Document Title:
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Paypal Bug Bounty #8 - CSRF DEV Web Vulnerability


References (Source):
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http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=644

Paypal UID: ydw159yyb


Release Date:
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2013-01-23


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
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644


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
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2.5


Product & Service Introduction:
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PayPal is a global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money 
transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders. Originally, 
a PayPal account could be funded with an electronic debit from a bank account or by a credit card at the payer s choice. But some 
time in 2010 or early 2011, PayPal began to require a verified bank account after the account holder exceeded a predetermined 
spending limit. After that point, PayPal will attempt to take funds for a purchase from funding sources according to a specified 
funding hierarchy. If you set one of the funding sources as Primary, it will default to that, within that level of the hierarchy 
(for example, if your credit card ending in 4567 is set as the Primary over 1234, it will still attempt to pay money out of your 
PayPal balance, before it attempts to charge your credit card). The funding hierarchy is a balance in the PayPal account; a 
PayPal credit account, PayPal Extras, PayPal SmartConnect, PayPal Extras Master Card or Bill Me Later (if selected as primary 
funding source) (It can bypass the Balance); a verified bank account; other funding sources, such as non-PayPal credit cards.
The recipient of a PayPal transfer can either request a check from PayPal, establish their own PayPal deposit account or request 
a transfer to their bank account.

PayPal is an acquirer, performing payment processing for online vendors, auction sites, and other commercial users, for which it 
charges a fee. It may also charge a fee for receiving money, proportional to the amount received. The fees depend on the currency 
used, the payment option used, the country of the sender, the country of the recipient, the amount sent and the recipient s account 
type. In addition, eBay purchases made by credit card through PayPal may incur extra fees if the buyer and seller use different currencies.

On October 3, 2002, PayPal became a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay. Its corporate headquarters are in San Jose, California, United 
States at eBay s North First Street satellite office campus. The company also has significant operations in Omaha, Nebraska, Scottsdale, 
Arizona, and Austin, Texas, in the United States, Chennai, Dublin, Kleinmachnow (near Berlin) and Tel Aviv. As of July 2007, across 
Europe, PayPal also operates as a Luxembourg-based bank.

On March 17, 2010, PayPal entered into an agreement with China UnionPay (CUP), China s bankcard association, to allow Chinese consumers 
to use PayPal to shop online.PayPal is planning to expand its workforce in Asia to 2,000 by the end of the year 2010.
Between December 4ñ9, 2010, PayPal services were attacked in a series of denial-of-service attacks organized by Anonymous in retaliation 
for PayPal s decision to freeze the account of WikiLeaks citing terms of use violations over the publication of leaked US diplomatic cables.

(Copy of the Homepage: www.paypal.com) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal]


Abstract Advisory Information:
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The Vulnerability Laboratory Research Team discovered a Web Vulnerability in the official Paypal plaze ecommerce website application.


Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
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2012-07-04:	Researcher Notification & Coordination
2012-07-05:	Vendor Notification
2012-07-06:	Vendor Response/Feedback
2012-12-14:	Vendor Fix/Patch
2013-01-23:	Public Disclosure


Discovery Status:
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Published


Exploitation Technique:
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Remote


Severity Level:
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Low


Technical Details & Description:
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A cross site request forgery vulnerability is detected in the Paypal Developer content management system web application. 
The bugs allow remote attackers with medium or high required user inter action to automatically reset user accounts with a 
client-side request.  The vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers with client side malicious links, without 
privileged user account & with medium or high required user inter action. When a frontend user/developer/moderator/admin is 
processing to load the malicious link with a not expired session, the script will update (automatic) via client site reset 
with the attackers new choosen values to reset a account. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability result in automatic 
reset of accounts.

Vulnerable Module(s):

				[+] reset-account-session


Proof of Concept (PoC):
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The cross site request forgery vulnerability can be exploited by remote attacker with high required user inter action.
For demonstration or reproduce ...

https://developer.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/devscr?cmd=+_reset-account-session&history_depth=&first_name=&
last_name=&password=341357375&account_notes=%22%3E%3Ciframe+src%3Da+onload%3Dalert%28%22VL%22%29+%3C&account_refresh=&country=US&account_type=seller&login_email_text=01x445_1341357023_biz%40gmail.com&login_email_domain=&credit_card=D&bank_account=Yes&account_balance=300&localized_currency_symbol_html=
%24&localized_currency_code=USD&reset_account=

... or via sandbox.paypal.com


Security Risk:
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The security risk of the cross site request forgery vulnerability is estimated as low(+).


Credits & Authors:
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Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team]  -    Benjamin Kunz Mejri ([email protected])


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