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Re: Command injection vulnerability in Ruby Gem sprout 0.7.246


From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:48:10 -0700

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On 12/02/2013 05:13 PM, Larry W. Cashdollar wrote:
Title: Command injection vulnerability in Ruby Gem sprout 0.7.246

Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/sprout,
http://projectsprouts.org/

Vulnerability:

The unpack_zip() function contains the following code:

sprout-0.7.246/lib/sprout/archive_unpacker.rb

60           zip_dir = File.expand_path(File.dirname(zip_file)) 61
zip_name = File.basename(zip_file) 62           output =
File.expand_path(dir) 63           # puts ">> zip_dir: #{zip_dir}
zip_name: #{zip_name} output: #{output}    " 64           %x(cd
#{zip_dir};unzip #{zip_name} -d #{output})


If the attacker can control zip_dir, zip_name or output then they
can possibly execute shell commands by injecting shell meta
characters as input.


PoC:

For example: filename;id;.zip

I contacted the developer a few weeks ago but received no
response.


Thanks! Larry W. Cashdollar @_larry0 
http://vapid.dhs.org/advisories/


Please use CVE-2013-6421 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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