VDB-ID: 52
Title: Flash Tool 0.6.0 Remote code execution vulnerability
Vulnerability Date: 2013-03-01
Download: http://rubygems.org/gems/flash_tool
Vendor: Bojan Milosavljevic
Notified: 2013-03-04
Vendor Contact: milboj@gmail.com
Description: A ruby wrapper for swftool command line tool. http://www.swftools.org/ Flash tool is small and mini tool for creating swf files from pdfs, pictures and fonts and parsing data from flash files.
Vulnerability: If files downloaded contain shell characters it's possible to execute code as the client user.

ie: flash_file;id>/tmp/o;.swf

./flash_tool-0.6.0/lib/flash_tool.rb

Lines:

26         command = "swfstrings #{file}"
27:        output = `#{command} 2>&1`
88:        command = "#{command} #{option} #{file}"
89:        output = `#{command} 2>&1`

./flash_tool-0.6.0/lib/flash_tool/flash.rb
75:      command = "#{command} #{args.join(" ")}"
76:      output = `#{command} 2>&1`

CVE-IDs: 2013-2513
Exploit: 
URL: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/flash_tool-0.6.0-cmd_exec.html
Credit: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0