Arbitrary Shell Command Injection Affecting awesome_spawn package, versions < 1.2.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-AWESOMESPAWN-20154
  • published27 Mar 2014
  • disclosed27 Mar 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Mar 2014

CVE-2014-0156  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

awesome_spawn extends Ruby's Kernel.spawn.

Affected versions carry a vulnerability that allows crafted malicious input to execute shell commands.

Example:

AwesomeSpawn.run('ls', :params => {'-l' => "; touch haxored"})`

CVSS Scores

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