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@vendure/core's insecure currencyCode handling allows wrong payment amounts

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 17, 2023 in vendure-ecommerce/vendure • Updated Nov 17, 2023

Package

npm @vendure/core (npm)

Affected versions

< 2.1.3

Patched versions

2.1.3

Description

Impact

Currently, in many Vendure deployments it's possible to select any currencyCode (really any, doesn't need to be assigned to the channel) and pay through Mollie and Stripe in that particular currencyCode.
The prices are not transformed. The result is the Order is in Payment Settled in the foreign currency.
See SS, CZK is not in the channel.
I've tested with Mollie and Stripe it both works.

Further notes

After looking into this further and with help from the comments below, the root cause of this vulnerability is the ability to specify an arbitrary currencyCode as a query parameter to an API call, and then Vendure will use this and pass it to the rest of the system as RequestContext.currencyCode.

The solution is to add validation to the passed currencyCode to ensure that it matches one of the available availableCurrencyCodes of the active Channel.

Furthermore, an additional check has been added for when the currencyCode changes during the AddingItems stage - in this case we need to re-calculate the prices in the new currency.

Patches

v2.1.3

Workarounds

You can define a custom OrderProcess onTransitionStart function which can verify the order's currencyCode is as expected before allowing the transition to the ArrangingPayment state.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 17, 2023
Reviewed Nov 17, 2023
Last updated Nov 17, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-wm63-7627-ch33

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