Thumbshooter Gem for Ruby thumbshooter.rb URL Shell Metacharacter Injection Arbitrary Command Execution

2013-03-2520:00:00

RubySec

nvd.nist.gov

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.008

Percentile

81.9%

JSON

Thumbshooter Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is due to the program
failing to properly sanitize input passed to thumbshooter.rb. With a specially crafted
URL that contains shell metacharacters, a context-dependent attacker can execute
arbitrary commands.