Security readout for executives and security teams
A flaw in Hassan Consulting's shop.cgi shopping cart program let remote attackers read files outside the intended web directory by supplying "../" sequences in the page parameter. In practical terms, a visitor could ask the store's script for files it was never meant to serve, such as system configuration or source code. This is a legacy issue from 2000 affecting an obscure CGI product unlikely to be in modern environments. Very low in modern estates. Hassan Consulting's shop.cgi is a niche late-1990s Perl shopping cart with no known current deployments in enterprise environments. Exposure is limited to legacy hosting or archived web systems still running the original CGI. Low priority for most organizations. Only relevant if legacy hosting or archived e-commerce systems still run Hassan Consulting's shop.cgi. Where present, treat as a data disclosure risk and retire the software rather than patch it, given the vendor's inactivity. Mitigation focus: Remove or replace Hassan Consulting shop.cgi with a currently supported e-commerce platform.; Consult the original vendor advisory or archived vendor guidance for any available patch.; Restrict web server file system permissions so the CGI user cannot read sensitive files..
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- hassan-shopping-cart-dir-traversal(5342)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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