Advisory #: 107
Title: Thumbshooter 0.1.5 remote code execution
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2013-03-25
Download Site: https://github.com/digineo/thumbshooter
Vendor: http://www.digineo.de/
Vendor Notified: 2013-03-25
Vendor Contact: http://www.digineo.de/
Description: Generates thumbshots of URLs by using Webkit and QT4.
Vulnerability:
Specially crafted URLs can result in remote code execution if the URL contains shell metacharacters. We see that the url is passed directly to the shell in the following code snippet from ./thumbshooter-0.1.5/lib/thumbshooter.rb: 1012 command << "xvfb-run -a --server-args='-screen 0, #{screen}x24' " 1015 command << "{WEBKIT2PNG} '{url}' {args}" 1016 1017 img = `{command} 2>&1`
CVEID: 2013-1898
OSVDB:91839
Exploit Code:
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Screen Shots:
Advisory: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/thumbshooter-ruby-gem-remoteexec.html