CVE-2020-11560: NCH Express Invoice-Clear Text Password Storage

Vulnerable Software: Express Invoice

Affected Version: 7.25

Vendor Homepage: https://www.nchsoftware.com/

CVE: CVE-2020-11560

CVE Author: Tejas Nitin Pingulkar

Exploit Available: POC Available

About Affected Software

Express Invoice lets you create invoices you can print, email or fax directly to clients for faster payment. The reporting functionality allows you to keep track of payments, overdue accounts, sales team performance, and more.

Additional Information

Express Invoice has functionality that allows to access it over the web. While configuring web access function, application asks for user details such as username, password, email, etc. Application stores this information in “C:\ProgramData\NCH Software\ExpressInvoice\Accounts”

Note: from version 8.24 path changed to “C:\ProgramData\NCH Software\ExpressInvoice\WebAccounts”

Exploit

A low-authenticated user can access files stored in cleartext format in C:\ProgramData\NCH Software\ExpressInvoice\Accounts and obtain username passwords.

Mitigation

Patch not available as of 19 April 2020

Possible solution: to restrict access to the host server. 

Proof Of Concept

 

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