Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting brbackup package, versions >= 0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-BRBACKUP-20187
  • published8 Jul 2014
  • disclosed8 Jul 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jul 2014

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

brbackup Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is triggered as input passed via the dbuser variable is not properly sanitized. This may allow a remote attacker to inject shell metacharacters and execute arbitrary commands.

CVSS Scores

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