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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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