VDB-ID: 63
Title: Vulnerability Report for Ruby Gem karo-2.3.8
Vulnerability Date: 2014-06-01
Download:  http://rubygems.org/gems/karo
Vendor:  rahul.trikha[at]gmail.com
Notified: 2014-06-25
Vendor Contact:  rahul.trikha[at]gmail.com
Description: SSH toolbox to make running logs, sync, cache commands easier for a given rails app
Vulnerability: From: ./karo-2.3.8/lib/karo/db.rb

Line 76 and 95 passes unsanitized user supplied input to the command line. If this gem is used in the context of a rails application malicious input could lead to remote command injection.

073-      host = "{@configuration["user"]}@{@configuration["host"]}"
74-      cmd  = "ssh #{host} cat {server_db_config_file}"
75-
76:      server_db_config_output = `{cmd}`
79-
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89- def drop_and_create_local_database(local_db_config)

90-      command = case local_db_config["adapter"]
91-      when "mysql2"
93-      when "postgresql"
95-          dropdb -h #{local_db_config["host"]} -U #{local_db_config["username"]} --if-exists #{local_db_config["database"]}
CVE-IDs: 
Exploit: 
URL: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/karo-2.3.8.html
Credit: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0