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Message-Id: <20140707181436.B67C71A41139@me.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:14:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: larry0@...com (Larry W. Cashdollar)
To: <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Vulnerability Report for Ruby Gem karo-2.3.8
Title: Vulnerability Report for Ruby Gem karo-2.3.8
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 06/01/2014
OSVDB: 108573
CVE:Please Assign
Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/karo
Gem Author: rahul.trikha@...il.com
From: ./karo-2.3.8/lib/karo/db.rb
Line 76 and 95 passes unsanitized user supplied input to the command line. If this gem is used in the context of a rails application malicious input could lead to remote command injection.
073- host = "#{@...figuration["user"]}@#{@...figuration["host"]}"
74- cmd = "ssh #{host} cat #{server_db_config_file}"
75-
76: server_db_config_output = `#{cmd}`
79-
--
89- def drop_and_create_local_database(local_db_config)
90- command = case local_db_config["adapter"]
91- when "mysql2"
93- when "postgresql"
95- dropdb -h #{local_db_config["host"]} -U #{local_db_config["username"]} --if-exists #{local_db_config["database"]}
Advisory: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/karo-2.3.8.html
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