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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:57:03 -0500
From: "Larry W. Cashdollar" <larry0@...com>
To: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: paratrooper-pingdom-1.0.0 ruby gem exposes API login credentials
Title: paratrooper-pingdom-1.0.0 ruby gem exposes API login credentials
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 12/26/2013
CVE: Please assign.
Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/paratrooper-pingdom
Description: "Send deploy notifications to Pingdom service when deploying with Paratrooper"
Vulnerable Code:
From: paratrooper-pingdom-1.0.0/lib/paratrooper-pingdom.rb
24 def setup(options = {})
25 %x[curl
https://api.pingdom.com/api/2.0/checks -X PUT -d "paused=tru e" -H "App-Key: {app_key}" -u "
{username}:#{password}"]
26 end
27
28 def teardown(options = {})
29 %x[curl
https://api.pingdom.com/api/2.0/checks -X PUT -d "paused=fal se" -H "App-Key: {app_key}" -u "
{username}:#{password}"]
30 end
A malicious user could monitor the process tree to steal the API key, username and password for the API login.
http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/paratrooper-api-key-pingdom.html
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