Multiple vulnerabilities in 'pizza_party'

["H. Morrow Long" <morrow.long () yale edu>]

Product:        pizza_party
URL:              http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/pizza_party/
Version:        pizza_party 0.1.beta and earlier
Risk:              Multiple vulnerabilities (high)

Description:

pizza_party is a Perl based command line tool that provides a non-Web  
interface to
Dominos Pizza's QuikOrder(TM) website pizza ordering service by using  
HTTP over
the Internet.

It is third-party open-soruce software, developed by an individual and  
unsupported by
Dominos Pizza.

Available at:
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/pizza_party/download/pizza_party 
-0.1.b.tar.gz

I believe it may now be in use internally at a large number of  
corporate organizations
(primarily by hard-core coder types who are too focused on the task at  
hand to get up
and go out to get a pizza -- or even to lift up the phone to order  
one), and installations
can also be found on the public Internet.


The Problem:

pizza_party is very bad about protecting the username and password for
the Dominos Pizza QuikOrder website. This may lead to a multitude of
vulnerabilities, the most dangerous being that 'ps' can be used to  
observe
the command line input parameters on the stack passed via the shell.

Also the non-SSL (unencrypted) web interface  
(http://www.dominos.quikorder.com)
is used over the Internet, so anyone who can capture (sniff) the  
traffic could easily
obtain the Dominos QuikOrder username and password from the standard  
base64-
encoded POST to the website.

Either would allow for individuals other than the owner of the Dominos  
Pizza
account to order arbitrary pizzas (with random toppings even) via the  
Dominos
QuikOrder web server and have them delivered  -- resulting in chaos,  
anarchy
and confusion.

Additionally, there may be other issues resulting from the misuse of  
this package.
It is impossible to tell what other uses might be made of the  
username/password
pair stolen (it might be used by the use for all of their accounts on  
the Web f'instance).

Also note that as the order is sent unencrypted it may be possible for  
a MITM attack
to tamper with the order (potentially adding anchovies, onions or other  
undesirables).

The Fixes:

1.	pizza_party should use HTTP over SSL to order the pizza's from  
Dominos
        'secure' QuikOrder website:   https://www.dominos.quikorder.com/

	Unfortunately there are some problems with the Web certificate for  
this site.

2.      pizza_party should prompt the command line user for the username and
        password and read them from /dev/tty rather than accept them as params
        on the command line.

3.	pizza_party should also overwrite the store of the username and  
password
	(or encrypt them) when they are in memory or an attacker could steal  
them
        from RAM, or a swapfile on disk.

- H. Morrow Long, CISSP, CISM
  University Information Security Officer
  Director -- Information Security Office
  Yale University, ITS

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